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...valuable film library. In the first three quarters of 2004, Sony's U.S. operations kicked in 30% of the company's revenue. "Stringer got this job with the expectations that he will accomplish something similar throughout the entire company," says Yuichiro Yamagata, editor in chief of the Weekly Toyo Keizai business magazine...
...Center for Business and Government (CBG) will produce research, sponsor two fellowships and run executive conferences as benefits of its partnership with Keizai Doyukai (Doyukai), a Japanese business association, said J.H. Dow Davis, executive director...
EXPLAINING to the Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun why he had not been promoted to grand champion, American-born sumo wrestler Konishiki said, "Strictly speaking, this is racial discrimination." By week's end, however, the 576-lb. idol backed down and said his remarks had been "misinterpreted...
Another argument for change is that investors are no longer willing to wait for long-term payouts on their investments. "Those days are over," argued Richard Koo, a senior economist at the Nomura Research Institute, in an article in the economic weekly magazine Toyo Keizai. From now on, he predicted, companies will have to increase prices or withdraw from unprofitable lines of business if they are to meet investors' expectations...
Lately some Japanese executives have begun to acknowledge that their country is partly to blame for America's economic problems. A commentary in a recent issue of the respected business weekly Toyo Keizai could have been written by Pat Buchanan: "Japan can't merely criticize the decline of the U.S. economy by saying, 'It serves you right.' If one takes into consideration the abnormal situation where Japan's excessive competition, low profit margins and long work hours served as a background to our earning a $40 billion trade surplus with the U.S. . . . we can say that Japan has a share...