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...auctioneer estimates the number of tuna coming in these days is down 60% to 70% from what it used to be. Japan's Fisheries Agency does not believe its local tuna are overfished and has steadfastly refused to impose a quota on its tuna fishermen. But in August, Masayuki Komatsu, a professor at Japan's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, who has fiercely defended Japan's right to hunt whale, made the heretical claim that because Japan's bluefin is so depleted "Japanese people must change their mind...
...city. Their faces were grim. No one was in the mood to talk. The last time Caterpillar faced a similar crunch was in the early 1980s, when the company had to deal with the combination of recession and loss of market share to a fierce Japanese competitor, Komatsu. (See pictures of the recession...
...black rain fell. It looked like oil to Seiko Komatsu, then 9. He saw the rain soak his wounded grandparents. He had been having breakfast in their house when the bomb fell and gutted it. Three days later, the city of Nagasaki was destroyed by another atom bomb. Japan announced its unconditional surrender on Aug. 14. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
...their camp nonetheless, Japan and its supporters "corrected" the record on subsequent votes. And for the 14th year in a row, Japan failed to win approval for the killing of 50 minke whales by four traditional whaling ports along its Pacific coast. Just before the conference opened, Masayuki Komatsu, a top Fisheries Agency official and one of the Japanese delegation's alternate IWC commissioners, termed the small, speedy minke "the cockroach of the oceans." Komatsu also stirred controversy by voicing what environmental campaigners had long asserted - that Japan uses international aid to "get understanding" in developing nations. In each...
...approach. In the early 1980s, says Glen Barton, group president for construction and mining machinery, Caterpillar's "costs were out of line with what overseas markets were willing to pay for our products"; the company lost $1.5 billion cutting prices below cost to meet the competition of Japan's Komatsu and other rivals. But Caterpillar has slashed its work force 31% in the past dozen years, and that has lowered costs and raised productivity: from sales of $886,000 per employee to $2.3 million. Losses have turned to profits, and more than half its nearly $12 billion annual sales...