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While Ghosn called the shots, Kazutoshi Mizuno, chief vehicle engineer and chief product specialist, choreographed the GT-R's journey from a Japanese concept to Germany's famed Nürburgring racetrack, where it clocked 0 to 60 m.p.h. (100 km/h) in 3.2 sec., a wink faster than Porsche's GT3. "Mizuno was responsible for cherry-picking those he wanted to work with," says Hiroshi Hasegawa, chief designer of the GT-R. "Information cascaded from him." A veteran racing-system developer and director, Mizuno asked Ghosn to allow for a race-car development method. He started in December 2003, using early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revving Up Nissan | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...will be limited. Yamanaka says he'll remain based in Japan because he doesn't want to pull his children out of high school. He has also been a father figure to younger colleagues-one that isn't afraid to share the credit. "He's a guiding teacher," says Kazutoshi Takahashi, an assistant professor at Kyoto and Yamanaka's first student. "Everyone in the lab gets the opportunity to have their names in big papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahead of the Curve | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...Kazutoshi Ito, head of the National Land Agency's disaster division, told journalists that sending soldiers into local governments' jurisdiction would have smacked of ``a return to prewar militarism.'' But the commander of Japanese defense forces in the region, Lieut. General Yusuke Matsushima, brushed tears from his eyes when he apologized in public last week. ``People said, Why didn't you help us sooner?'' he recounted. ``I understand, but it was--the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC AFTERSHOCK | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

Married. Fumiko Higashikuni, 21, eldest granddaughter of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; and Kazutoshi Omura, 28, an executive with Hitachi Metals, Ltd.; in a Shinto ceremony; in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 15, 1968 | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

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