Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. AKIO MORITA, 78, co-founder of Sony and the man most responsible for making "Made In Japan" a tribute; of pneumonia; in Tokyo (see EULOGY...
...desire to work with the underprivileged that got Wu, who took accounting in college, interested in recycling. After spending six years in the U.S. and Japan studying that industry, she returned home in 1989 to find Taiwanese recycling in disarray. National laws required that manufacturers pay fees to subsidize the reuse of materials from such products as bottles and cars. But independent foundations were set up to receive the money, and critics charged that little ever went to recycling firms...
...crowd roughly three times larger than the capacity of Science Center A packed that lecture hall, an adjacent lobby and steps outside yesterday to catch a glimpse of the former prime minister of Japan...
...informal affair was dubbed "auspicious" by Susan J. Pharr, director of Harvard's program on U.S.-Japan relations. Hashimoto drew laughs by saying he thought he was expected not to comment on world affairs, but to challenge Harvard students to a Kendo sparring session...
Hashimoto served as Japan's prime minister from 1996 to 1998, significantly strengthening his nation's relations with Russia and the United States while he was in office...