Word: kawasaki
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Because they flood the U.S. with everything from Sony TVs to nimble Kawasaki cycles and buy so little in return, the Japanese alone account for 40% of the nation's appalling trade deficit, which this year will rocket to a record $33 billion. In response to repeated American pleas for easier access to markets in the land of Hitachi and Datsun, the Japanese reply reproachfully: "But we are ready and eager to buy your goods. It is your fault for making no effort to sell to us." Last week a group of 100 U.S. businessmen, headed by Texas Instruments...
Time capsules are as popular now as they were on July 4, 1876. In Seward, Neb., a discount hardware store owner named Harold Davisson last year interred a 1975 Chevrolet in a crypt of concrete and steel. This year he is adding a blue Kawasaki motorcycle. Also in the vault are a Teflon frying pan, a bolt of polyester fabric, a zipper, a pair of bikini panties and a man's aquamarine leisure suit...
...much more used to doing business with Japanese firms, many of which have Moscow branch offices. (So far no U.S. manufacturer has a Moscow office, though the recent overall trade agreement provides for reciprocal office space in Moscow and Washington.) Atlantic Richfield took on Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries as a partner in the Leningrad deal...
...mounting casualty figures in Yokkaichi suggest the growing dangers of breathing Japanese air. The day that Seiichi died, Japan's second largest city, Osaka, issued its first smog alert. And within three days, in the smog-bound city of Kawasaki, the air claimed a new victim, Mrs. Natsuko Hojo, a 28-year-old mother of two children, whose death badly shocked the other victimized residents of the city...
Complicating the matter further, much of the city's lethal, eye-smarting smog, which sent 8,000 persons to the hospital last July, sweeps into Tokyo from factories outside the prefecture in the bustling Yokohama-Kawasaki region. Though the Diet passed 14 anti-pollution measures last winter, including the power to arrest offenders as criminals, Premier Sato has yet to demonstrate any enthusiasm for enforcement, presumably for fear of alienating big business contributors to his party...