Word: japanizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standing on a cloud," said Kaminari-san, or Mr. Thunder, as he is known to his workers. His company has put 1.4 million American-made Hondas on the road and sold 5.1 million imports since 1970. Said he: "I found doing business here much easier than in Japan. Our company in Ohio has been so well accepted that I believe it is an American company in substance...
...most industries, the movie business is dependent on the creative talents of a few top people. That is the basis for a feud that has broken out on the sprawling Burbank, Calif., studio lot that Columbia Pictures shares with Warner Bros. Friction between the neighbors began last month when Japan's Sony agreed to buy Columbia for $3.4 billion and made plans to hire hit-making producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters (Rain Man, Batman) to run the studio. But the two men had signed an exclusive five-year deal to make movies for rival Warner. The two sides tried...
BLACK RAIN. Michael Douglas glowers through this formulaic cop drama set in Japan. Director Ridley Scott can make anything -- a nightclub, a chase, a murder -- look sexy. But here he wastes his time -- and ours...
Michael's Pub is packed. The green-and-white-checked tablecloths are jammed so close together that the waiters can hardly squeeze between, and patrons find themselves knocking knees with their dinner companions. No matter. They have come from around the world -- Japan, Italy, France, Scandinavia, South America -- to savor this moment. The random babel of a hundred conversations suddenly turns into an excited murmur as a sandy-haired man in an open-necked white shirt and corduroy trousers saunters in and heads for an empty table. He nonchalantly opens a tattered case and removes, then hooks together, the sections...
...more than 100 member states of the nonaligned movement dispensed with their past denunciations of the U.S. and instead called for "a productive dialogue with the developed world" on "protection of the environment." As if heeding that appeal, on Sept. 11, at an international environmental conference in Tokyo, Japan's new Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu affirmed a pledge that his country would offer $2.25 billion to tackle pollution in the Third World...