Word: kogyo
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...wants to hear from his car radio or earphones is his company's anthem, or shaka, the corporate tune that employees are forced to sing at year-end parties and sometimes even during morning calisthenics in the factory yard. Pity, therefore, the workers of Yokohama-based Nihon Break Kogyo. After its anthem was played on a popular midnight variety show, Asahi TV's Tamori Club, so many listeners responded with requests for copies that the company decided to release the song as a single. It debuted last week at No. 22 on Oricon's weekly Top 30 singles list...
...evening, the last song he wants to hear on his car radio or television is his corporate anthem, the tune he is compelled to sing at year-end parties or, even worse, while performing morning calisthenics in the factory yard. Pity, therefore, the workers of Yokohama-based Nihon Break Kogyo Co. After a popular midnight variety show, Asahi TV's Tamori Club, played its shaka [anthem], the company was bombarded with feedback from viewers until it finally decided to release the song as a single. It debuted last week at No. 22 on the Oricon weekly top-30 singles list...
...contrast, Nihon Break Kogyo's anthem has lyrics nihilistic enough for the most postmodern hipster: We will destroy houses! We will destroy bridges! We will destroy buildings! To the east! To the west...
...many Japanese corporations want to project that message, of course. But Nihon Break Kogyo is a demolition company...
...price-fixing charges last week. But the Justice Department clearly had its sights on Archer-Daniels-Midland, the politically powerful Illinois grain processor, when it accepted sweeping plea-bargain deals with three companies accused of fixing the price of the feed additive lysine. The companies--Ajinomoto and Kyowa Hakko Kogyo of Japan, and the U.S. arm of South Korea's Sewon--agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and pay a total of $20 million in fines to settle the case...