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...doing things. Sponsored by Presidential Hopefuls Jack Kemp, a Republican Representative from New York, and Bill Bradley, a Democratic Senator from New Jersey, the two-day conference attracted such luminaries as Jacques Attali, counselor to French President François Mitterrand, New York Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn and Yusuke Kashiwagi, board chairman of the Bank of Tokyo. No agreements were reached, but a consensus emerged: more must be done to narrow currency fluctuations...
...advances that make surrogacy safer and more reliable, Japan's conservative health-care establishment remains against it, partly out of fear that some women might become for-profit baby factories. "For safety and welfare reasons, the human body should not be used as a tool for reproduction," said Tomoko Kashiwagi of the Health Ministry. The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology opposes the practice in part due to the potential for "complication of family relationships." The ministry, meanwhile, is pushing for an outright ban. Women with reproductive dysfunction, says Kashiwagi, may simply "have to give up on biological children...
...Etsuko Kashiwagi, 47, has 16 of them. She buys the dolls clothing and toys, and she and her husband take them on trips, posting on their website pictures of the dolls at the Eiffel Tower and Mount Fuji. "We're not crazy people," she insists. With their son in college, "we just find comfort in these dolls, as others might in their pets." Like-minded Primo owners take their "kids" on field trips and play dates; there's even a Primo hospital for adorable ailments like "hemorrhoids" (busted batteries). Yearning for the companionship of a robotic noodge? Too bad. Bandai...
Design of consumer products, on the other hand, tends toward the conventional -- as it does in the U.S. In neither country are there industrial-design stars in the European manner, and the transpacific parallel is probably not coincidental. Says Hiroshi Kashiwagi, a professor of art at Tokyo University of Art and Design: "In the wake of World War II, we learned American culture through the designs of goods at PX's -- by way of lamps, shoes, clothing -- not through the English language." And often they learned the banal dialect of mass-market American design...
...lobby the interests of member corporations before the government, a task eased by a bit of Japanese back-scratching known as amakudari-literally, descent from heaven. It refers to the practice whereby retiring top bureaucrats are quickly hired as top executives of the companies they once regulated. Yusuke Kashiwagi, a former Finance Ministry official, is now president of the Bank of Tokyo; Eimei Yamashita, a former trade official, is a managing director of Mitsui & Co.; there are many more...