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While Bridgestone builds a large share of the tires on Japanese cars and trucks bound for the U.S., it has only a small fraction of the American replacement-tire market. With protectionist sentiment against imports on the rise, Bridgestone Chairman Kanichiro Ishibashi, son of the founder, decided that the surest way to boost American sales was to produce tires in the U.S. Initially, Bridgestone officials talked of building a new plant, but Firestone Chairman John Nevin, who has been streamlining his firm, persuaded the Japanese company last February to buy the tire factory at LaVergne...
...readers. Gravely, Asahi's board of directors met in emergency session, fired not only Nagaoka but his two superiors in Kobe, as well as the managing editor of Asahi's Osaka edition who had relayed the story. Nine other Asahi news executives caught blistering reprimands. Said lanky Kanichiro Shinobu, managing editor of the Tokyo edition and one of those reprimanded: "This is very embarrassing...
Died. Lieut. Commander Winfield Liggett Jr., 56, who, after 14 years in the U. S. Navy, retired in 1919 to become one of the world's leading authorities on and ablest players of bridge; in New York. Died. Lt.-Gen. Kanichiro Tashiro, 56, predecessor of Lt.-Gen. Kiyoshi Kazuki as Commander of the Japanese North China garrison (see p. 18); of heart disease; in Tientsin, China...
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