Word: kusomoto
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...Sadahei Kusomoto, the chairman and chief executive of Minolta's U.S. operations for 22 years, argues with some plausibility, "It's hard to blame Japan for the recession in the U.S. Ford, GM and Zenith are moving their plants to Mexico. American companies are giving up manufacturing in this country, while Sony, Toshiba and Mitsubishi are coming here and opening up major plants. When things go wrong, we have to find some excuse, and the Japanese are becoming some sort of scapegoat...
Some Japanese believe the anti-Japanese sentiment in America is essentially racist. Kusomoto raises the question: "Most American people don't like to admit it, but racial issues have some very deep roots," he says. "Americans are seeing our successes here as Pearl Harbor II. Only this time...
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