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Wartime Profits. Osano's ambitious ventures in travel and tourism have made him, at 47, one of Japan's most remarkable postwar millionaires. He operates through his Tokyo-based company, Kokusai Kogyo, whose sales last year rose to $61 million. Among other things, the firm owns and operates Japan's biggest bus and taxi fleets, seven Japanese hotels and a string of driving schools, travel agencies and sporting-goods shops. It is also Japan's largest distributor of Chrysler Corp. autos and its sole distributor of International Harvester farm and construction equipment. As if all this...
...interest in the Chicago-based food processor, Libby, McNeill & Libby, which only recently was criticized by De Gaulle's government for its plans to set up a major canning operation in the south of France. Presumably, Libby will now be welcome. In Hawaii, Tokyo's Kokusai Kogyo Co. is awaiting only Japanese government approval before handing over $8.7 million to buy Sheraton's luxurious Princess Kaiulani Hotel on Waikiki. London's Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa. Ltd. is bidding $17.5 million to take control of St. Louis' American Zinc, Lead & Smelting...
Motoji Hatano decided that something drastic had to be done. As president of Tokyo's Kokusai Bus Co., he could hardly ignore the fact that its 59 buses had had 22 accidents this spring-three times as many as last spring. It was the same with the other Japanese sightseeing-bus companies: a total of 51 crashes, 15 deaths, 843 injured. President Hatano's manager did some oriental-style brain-storming and came up with an idea any adman would be glad to put on the train for Westport. The idea: send the bus drivers...
Died. Count Aisuke Kabayama, 88, U.S.-educated organizer of Japan's first international news agency, Kokusai Tsushin (1914), who was arrested by the Japanese police in 1945, two months before his country's surrender, for attempting secret peace negotiations with the Allies; in Tokyo...
Hamaguchi, who also is an editor of Kokusai-Kentiku, a monthly architectural magazine, took several pictures of work done in the course. He intends to print them along with a story on Design 1 when he returns to Japan...