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...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...
Even in Japan, where manpower is so cheap that there is little incentive to economize on wages, automation is spreading. Tokyo's Kawasaki Steel Corp. is building an electronically controlled mill that will ultimately produce steel at prices competitive with U.S. mills-even though the Japanese must import almost all their coal and ore. Other Japanese companies turn out auto parts, cameras, transistors, television sets and chocolate bars on automated equipment. Manufacturing a two-cylinder motorcycle now costs Japan's booming Honda Motor Co. (TIME, Aug. 25) no more than it used to cost to make...
JAPANESE planemakers will soon get additional experience with jet aircraft. The Far East Air Force awarded a one-year, $1,000,000-plus repair-and-overhaul contract for jet fighters (including the famed F-86 Sabre) and trainers to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Kawasaki Aircraft Engineering Co., makers of Zeros and light bombers in World...
...week voyage from Abadan, bringing to Japan her first petroleum shipment (15,300 long tons of diesel oil and automobile gasoline) from Premier Mossadegh's nationalized oilfields. At a special introductory price averaging 5.35^ a gallon, he had quite a bargain. Waiting to receive Skipper Nitta at the Kawasaki dock was a cluster of Iranian traders...