Word: kiyoshi
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...benefit the very people who are today fighting the logging traffic. Since JICA is not supposed to give funds to support Japanese commercial ventures abroad, the road has provided ammunition for those who argue that increased foreign aid by the Japanese will only further jeopardize the global environment. Kiyoshi Kato, director of JICA's Institute for International Cooperation, admits that his agency has learned a lesson from the Limbang road: "We must survey local opinion more thoroughly before starting future projects...
Perhaps Actor Kiyoshi Atsumi deserves a rest, along with his fans. The celebrated star of the polysequel Tora-San movies has just finished his 31st, an assembly linelike creativity that puts Sylvester Stallone and George Lucas to shame. In each Tora-San film, Atsumi, 55, noodles around in the same wildly checked, double-breasted leisure suit and porkpie hat, playing a middle-age Walter Mitty pitted against the vicissitudes of modern Japan. And with each film, some 4 million Tora-trekkies line up at the box office. His latest fan is a big one: IBM has cast...
...each of the films, Tora-San (Kiyoshi Atsumi) falls in love with a handsome woman. At the end it doesn't work out for one reason or another. He always looks as if his heart will break, and audiences all over Japan cry on cue. Since the first movie was introduced in 1969, an estimated 40 million people have been drawn to that familiar story, and 4 million more are expected to see the latest, which opened in theaters just before New Year's. Atsumi, 54, has become the best-known actor in the country, and no movie...
Some time this year, Honda will start to build a $200 million auto plant next to the motorcycle factory that it has been operating since last September outside Columbus. Stressing that "the quality of U.S. labor has proved on par or even better than that of ours," Kiyoshi Kawashima, president of Honda, said that the company at first will employ some 2,000 American workers and import engines and other components from Japan. Beginning in 1983, the firm will turn out 10,000 Ohio-built cars a month, roughly a third of its 1979 U.S. sales. The models: probably...