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...Japanese car companies so far have been resisting all government pressure to hold down exports to the U.S. But Katsuji Kawamata, chairman of Nissan Motor Co., maker of Datsuns, hinted that they might accept some compromise in order to head off even tougher U.S. action. Said he: "We cannot continue to act as if we couldn't care less what is happening over there...
Fear is driving buyers from the showrooms, and auto sales in Japan have slowed markedly in the past few weeks. If the trend continues, Japanese manufacturers may not realize their ambition to overtake the West Germans this year as the world's second-largest car producers. Nissan President Katsuji Kawamata concedes that the automakers have been more concerned with marketing than with safety. To ensure continued candor by the industry, the Diet is drawing up legislation to force the automakers to report defective cars and publicly recall them for repairs...
Japan's busy automakers last week rolled out a pair of gifts. The first, personally delivered to Emperor Hirohito's palace by Nissan Motor Co. President Katsuji Kawamata, 62, was a 100-m.p.h. limousine-at last ending imperial dependence on foreign makes. The second was a gleaming batch of figures. They showed that in 1966 Japan had bumped Britain out of its No. 3 spot, moved in behind the U.S. and Germany in world car and truck production...
...Says Katsuji Kawamata, 60, Nissan's president: "I made up my mind strictly from the viewpoint of making our industry stronger in international competition." Far from frowning on bigness, the government served as the matchmaker, is encouraging other mergers...
...diplomatic service. He flunked miserably.* As a consolation Enjiro Yamaza of the foreign office Political Affairs bureau got the boy an under-clerkship in the Japanese consulate in Seoul, Korea, coached him for a second try at the examinations. Koki Hirota's chief in Korea was young Katsuji Debuchi, lately Ambassador to Washington. The two have been fast friends ever since. After finally passing his examinations Koki Hirota spent a plodding apprenticeship in the Foreign Office, first in Peiking. later London, and Russia. After the War he served at the Embassy in Washington, returned to Tokyo...