Word: kenji
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last June, Hitachi Senior Engineer Kenji Hayashi and two colleagues walked into the Santa Clara offices of Glenmar Associates, purportedly a California consulting firm, to collect IBM documents giving crucial details of the company's newest computer technology. Hitachi had made payments totaling $622,000 to get the information. To Hayashi's surprise, he was confronted by a gaggle of FBI agents, who had set an Abscam-like trap to catch Hayashi and his friends...
...money was actually intended as a clandestine payment for confidential information on some of the newest and most powerful computers made by International Business Machines, Hitachi's chief American rival (Hitachi had $1.4 billion in computer revenues last year, IBM $24 billion). But when Hitachi Senior Engineer Kenji Hayashi and two colleagues showed up at Glenmar's six-room suite in a Santa Clara office building to collect the secret documents, they found themselves surrounded by a squad of FBI agents, who handcuffed them and charged them with conspiracy to transport stolen property in foreign commerce...
Japan is skilled in the mass production of high-quality goods and has become a formidable competitor in established industries like memory chips and home electronics. But Japan encourages corporate development at the expense of individual initiative. Says Kenji Tamiya, president of Sony Corp. of America: "Japanese society is more highly organized, and big organizations tend to avoid risk. Particularly in new fields like personal computers or video games, you must take risks and make decisions quickly. This gives the U.S. an advantage...
...physical conditioning, including swordsmanship. But "nearly everything that could be taught at a regular college is out," says Hisakado. The dominant lecture themes attempt to define the essential qualities of human beings and the disciplines that help a society endure. Most students in the entering class share one sentiment. Kenji Yoshida, 24, a graduate of Osaka University Law School, observes that many question "the existing Japanese value system, and entered this school in search of an answer...