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...Meanwhile, an appreciating currency?the yen hit a 13-year high against the dollar on Oct. 24?is hurting Japan???s exporters. This week, Honda cut its annual revenue forecast for the 2009 fiscal year to $5.2 billion, a 19% decline compared with FY2008 results. Sony announced that its profit dropped 72% in the first half of the year. Help may be on the way. But Aso must convince a divided Japanese parliament to pass his stimulus package amid growing skepticism that it will be too little, too late...
Wasteful Americans. This was also the U.S.'s position at the conference on Sept. 28 and 29 among Kissinger, Treasury Secretary William Simon and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns and their counterparts from Britain, France, West Germany and Japan???the energy-consuming Group of Five. They analyzed the possibilities of coordinating their policies and efforts on energy...
Peking's perception of an American determination to get out of Viet Nam, its worry about Russian influence spreading deeper into Asia, and to a lesser degree its concern about the burgeoning power of Japan???all these factors led to the Chinese summit last February, with its astonishing tableaux of Nixon walking the Great Wall, of Nixon toasting Chou. The genius of the Nixon-Kissinger policy was its sensitivity to thinking in Moscow and Peking. That startling thaw between the U.S. and China deeply disconcerted the Soviets...
After a stint at the Quantico Marine base?he trained as a platoon leader for an invasion of Japan???Finch returned to Occidental. He became student-body president, and married Carol, who had worn his fraternity pin for two years. Even then, recalls classmate Don Muchmore, the California pollster, "he was a practically invincible campaigner because he was?and still is?curious about people and he always wanted to know why they do what they do. The why, in Bob's thinking, has always been as important as the how, and perhaps more...
...NOMA OF JAPAN???Seiji Noma?Vanguard ($3.75). Dai Nippon Yubenkai Kodansha, founded in 1910, is the leading publishing house of Japan. Its nine magazines comprise some 70% of the total Nipponese output. In book publishing it is the birthplace of mass production in Japan with best sellers passing the million mark. Founder Seiji Noma has been compared to Newnes, Northcliffe, Hearst, Curtis. Since 1930 he has been head of the Tokyo Hochi Shimbun ("Intelligence Newspaper"), oldest and one of the most influential Japanese dailies. This book is his autobiography, written in English by his friend, Shunkichi Akimoto. Unusually frank...