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...promise of a national rejuvenation. And maybe even boost the stock market. An absurd notion, sure, but there hasn't been much of anything to cheer about in Japan for, oh, the better part of a decade. "We've only had bad and bleak news these days," says Kaoru Yoshii, 28, who hurriedly logged on to her mobile-phone Internet service to read about the birth when she noticed a merchant hoisting a national flag outside his shop. "It's good to hear some good news like this...
...Prime Minister Takeo Miki points out that "Chisso wants the loan to pay not for the consequences of pollution but to repair its damaged production system." Then, too, says Labor Leader Kaoru Ohta, if Chisso were to go bankrupt, there would be no compensation for the remaining Minamata victims-nor would there be jobs for the company's 1,500 workers and those of its subcontractors. "PPP is fine with me," Ohta says, "but the government should grant that loan." Even if it does, however, Chisso for a long time to come will have to contend with a fourth...
Such discoveries are not unusual; as many as a dozen new comets are found each year, often by diligent amateur stargazers like Kaoru Ikeya, a worker in a Japanese piano factory. Ikeya has been finding new comets at the rate of about one a year since he and another Japanese amateur, Tsutomo Seki, independently discovered the major Ikeya-Seki comet in 1965. Kohoutek, too, had previously discovered a comet in 1969. But it was the second of his 1973 discoveries -officially called Comet Kohoutek 1973f (the ∫ indicating that it was the sixth new comet sighted this year)-that quickly...
CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: Yuzuru Abe, Nippon Steel Corp.; Tadashi Arita, The Fuji Bank, Ltd.; Tatsuro Goto, Mitsui & Co., Ltd.; Nobuya Hagura, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank; Akira Harada, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.; Shoji Kambara, Ricoh Co., Ltd.; Kiyoshi Kawashima, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.; Kaoru Kobayashi, Institute of Business Administration and Management; Kazutoyo Komatsu, Trio Electronics, Inc.; Tatsuya Komatsu, Simul International, Inc.; Masao Kunihiro, Kokusai Shoka College; Teiji Makikawa, Fujitsu Ltd.; Isao Makino, Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd.; Jiro Mayekawa, Teijin Ltd.; Yohei Mimura, Mitsubishi Corp.; Masafumi Misu, Hitachi, Ltd.; Rihei Nagano, Kubota, Ltd.; Yoshio Narita, Yamaichi Securities Co., Ltd.; Yoshiro...
Hunched at the eyepiece of his telescope early in the morning of December 29 in the Japanese city of Hamamatsu, Kaoru Ikeya suddenly grew tense. He had spotted an unfamiliar blob of light in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Five minutes later, 240 miles away in Kochi, Tsutomu Seki located the same strange object. Both checked their star maps, then hurriedly mounted their bicycles and pedaled furiously to the nearest telegraph office. There they dispatched the word to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. Incredibly, the same two amateur astronomers who had independently but almost simultaneously discovered 1965's famous and brilliant...