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...When Disney conceived his California Disneyland, he strongly felt that before visitors got to Tomorrowland, Fantasyland and Frontier land, they should first pass through Main Street, which he described as "everyone's home town, the heartland of America." And so they will at Urayasu. Says Tokyo Psychologist Kazuo Shimada: "At this point, the Japanese are brimming with curiosity about America and the Americans...
...Bridgestone and the plant's union, United Rubber Workers Local 1055. The workers were leery at first because of the reputation Japanese companies have for opposing unions. The Japanese were bewildered by the American system of assigning workers the best jobs and working hours strictly by seniority. Says Kazuo Ishikure, Bridgestone's U.S. manufacturing president: "Seniority is the backbone of the U.S. labor contract. But in Japan, the executives can move workers between shifts or between jobs and departments quite freely...
...DIED. Kazuo Iwama, 63, president of Sony Corp. for the past six years and a key executive in the growth of the worldwide electronics giant; of cancer; in Tokyo. Iwama joined the company in 1946 and helped lead Sony into mass production of transistorized radios that touched off the Japanese semiconductor industry. Under his guidance, Sony became the first Japanese electronics company to build a color TV manufacturing plant...
...conveniently located vending machines dispensing hard liquor, beer and sake 24 hours a day. "In Japan," explains a Tokyo businessman, "alcohol plays the role of psychiatry in the West. Instead of analysis, we get rid of our inhibitions with a few drinks. I think we would explode without it." Kazuo Shimada, a psychologist, agrees: "If they were forced to go on the wagon, many Japanese would simply go bang." Yet another survey discloses that 63% of all Japanese males gave an unequivocal no to the question: Is your life possible without a few drinks? Thus it is hardly surprising that...
...wounded since the first of the year in gun battles that terrorized whole communities. Worse, one innocent bystander and two police officers were wounded in gross violation of the ancient code. According to police undercover agents, the warfare erupted because of the waning health and authority of Crime Czar Kazuo Taoka, 64, leader of the 11,000-member Yamaguchi-gumi, the biggest yakuza gang in the country...