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...Hiroshi Kimura SMOKED OUT IN JAPAN...
Domestic sales account for 73% of Japan Tobacco's $40 billion in revenues. But as with U.S. cigarette sellers, declining usage at home means foreign lands are the key to growth for the world's third largest tobacco manufacturer. Experience in overseas operations will help Hiroshi Kimura, Japan Tobacco's new CEO. In the face of increasing competition and shrinking demand, the company saw domestic sales drop 2.5% in the last fiscal year. Foreign sales jumped more than 11% last year, to $7.6 billion. Morgan Stanley analyst Taizo Demura forecasts a 15% jump in Japan Tobacco's overseas earnings this...
...indicate projects were in compliance. Aneha, who admitted in a press conference to faking the data, said he had buckled under pressure to meet cost requirements of developers and construction firms that had hired him. In hearings before the Japanese parliament last week, Hideaki Shinozuka, an executive director at Kimura Construction, which built many of Aneha's buildings, denied pressuring the architect to violate safety regulations. "I said to reduce the amount within legal limits," Shinozuka said...
...Near the Miyuki Bridge I met my classmate Kimura. Kimura belonged to the odd-numbered group, so he had been working in the streets when the bomb went off. His face was charred. He lived in West Hiroshima, and he said he was going home, which meant that he was heading back toward the direction of the hypocenter. I told him that it was impossible to go back, that the area was all in flames. He was delirious and would not listen to me. He only repeated, 'I want to go home. I want to go home.' He walked away...
...making his bedsprings squeak. Bai Ling makes one rash transaction: she gives her heart to Chow, who wants her only as a playmate. The one sedate lady in the hotel is its owner's older daughter Jingwen (Faye Wong), pining over a broken affair with a Japanese man (Takuya Kimura). She encourages Chow, a journalist who writes erotic books on the side, to switch to science fiction. Soon she is helping him write a novel called 2046, in which Chow creates an android version of Jingwen. The novel is set in a futureworld where people go to recapture lost memories...