Word: kawai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japanese estimate that Siberia contains at least 5 billion tons of iron ore, 20 billion cubic meters of natural gas, limitless hydroelectric power, and eminently marketable amounts of pelts from sable, lynx and big Siberian bears. "We have a destiny in Siberia," says Yoshinari Kawai, 82, a canny Japanese bulldozer manufacturer who led the timber negotiations and now heads the Japanese consortium. "Happily, that destiny will be equally profitable to us Japanese and the Russian people...
...Best Days." Sure enough, the seven pilots flocked to Ozuki. They had no trouble recognizing the girls from Tabe High. Spotting Mrs. Hori, ex-Kamikaze Hideo Kawai cried: "Why, you look exactly the same!" "And you look as handsome as ever," said she. "Banzai!" cheered Kawai, a portly, balding Kyoto milk dealer who obviously could not swing into a fighter cockpit as easily as he once did. Over a lunch of rice, shredded cuttlefish and beer-a traditional Kamikaze last meal -the men and women swapped toasts "to the best days of our lives," promised to meet again next year...
Last week something more tangible was brought back to Japan from Moscow by a delegation of 17 Japanese business leaders, led by aggressive Yoshinari Kawai, 76, president of the Komatsu heavy equipment works, and including Kaneo Niwa, chairman of the giant Mitsubishi shipbuilding company...