Word: kawasaki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been the Japanese ambassador to Iran, Poland and now Argentina, and he had served the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo for 37 impeccable years, but last week 59-year-old Ichiro Kawasaki found himself sacked for that most undiplomatic sin of all-speaking out. Was he guilty of gossiping about the Shah, uncovering the truth behind Polish jokes, or detailing the gaucheness of the gauchos? Not a bit of it. All Kawasaki did was to write a book, Japan Unmasked, about his fellow Japanese...
After Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi scanned the book, he erupted. Among other things, Kawasaki had quoted a remark generally attributed to General Charles de Gaulle: just before a formal chat in 1964 with the late Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, he confided that "today I am going to have a little talk with a transistor-radio salesman." Even more annoying to Aichi was Kawasaki's charge that in Japan "there is clearly an absence of leadership at the top, no realization of what is best in the national interest, a shortage of moral courage and discipline." Political parties got short...
...Kawasaki write the book? "It is an attempt," he told Japanese correspondents, "at helping to enhance understanding about Japanese among foreigners." Kawasaki's sort of understanding, however, was not considered desirable by the Tokyo government. Last week Kawasaki was on his way home to begin his retirement somewhat earlier than usual. Would he live in Tokyo? Probably not, since he also observed in his book that "it is one of the ugliest and most disorderly capitals of the world...
...Iron & Steel Co. and Fuji Iron & Steel Co., currently Japan's two largest producers. Encouraged by the authorities, competition flourished; today Japan has 62 steelmakers. But 55% of production is still accounted for by the nation's big four, who are rounded out by Nihon Kokan and Kawasaki Steel...
...reputation for ingenious engineering. Tokyo's Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering, the world's largest shipbuilder, has launched an 11,000-ton freighter whose "bulbous bow" (like a nuclear sub's) enables it to cruise at 20 knots on 25% less fuel than conventional ships. Kobe's Kawasaki Heavy Industry recently launched a 29,000-ton tanker whose engine and control systems are so highly automated that it is manned by only 31 crewmen v. 62 for comparable tankers. Also at Kobe, Mitsubishi Heavy-Industries is experimenting with a "pin-joint" design for large tankers; the ship would...