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After discussing U.S.-Japan trade problems with Keijiro Murata, Minister of International Trade and Industry, lacocca went to South Korea, where he announced a joint venture with Samsung, a conglomerate that makes everything from ships to electronics. The Samsung-Chrysler operation will produce auto parts and components in Korea for export to the U.S. Both the Japanese and Korean deals underscored Chrysler's policy of not building subcompact cars in the U.S. entirely on its own. The company will now be relegating at least part of the job to foreign companies to keep costs down. ELECTRONICS Sony Complicates the Picture...
...legs to start lifting, sensors on the suit detect which muscles are being used and activate a battery-powered air pump, which in turn inflates a series of air bags on the suit. As the bags inflate, they provide added support for your back, arms and legs. INVENTOR Keijiro Yamamoto AVAILABILITY 2005, $15,000 to $20,000 TO LEARN MORE yamakei@ we.kanagawa-it.ac.jp...
...contract to import 18,860 bbl. for his Lions Petroleum Co., which is based near Tokyo. But MITI had other ideas. The ministry had previously ruled that only crude oil, not gasoline, may enter Japan. Refining is done domestically. When word of Satoh's purchase got out, MITI Minister Keijiro Murata sent him an "advice" that bluntly warned, "Do not import that gasoline." Satoh's friendly banker warned him to heed MITI. That did it. Said Satoh: "I had no choice but to surrender...
...parents, Mina and Brian Lewis, refused to accept the sentence of death. They consulted Dr. Orvar Swenson, a noted pediatric surgeon at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He, too, was pessimistic. He recalled, without recommending it, a modified operation devised by a Japanese surgeon, Dr. Keijiro Suruga, who reported that it had succeeded in some cases. Mina Lewis did some research of her own and found a new article by Suruga in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery. Then, using her experience as a travel agent, she quickly arranged a family trip to Tokyo in early January...
...Those who cannot afford streamers have taken to looting department-store powder rooms of rolls of toilet paper on which they scribble lipsticked love messages, such as daite ageru wayo (I shall hold you), before sending the tissue arching over the footlights. The top rockabilly stars-Masaaki Hirao, 20; Keijiro Yamashita, 19; Micky Curtis, 18, the son of an English father and an English-Japanese mother-wear flame-red shirts, rose-pink coats, lobster-colored tight pants, blue or white suede shoes. They have learned their art from listening to U.S. records of Elvis Presley, though sometimes the lyrics suffer...