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...price tag on the new lightweight satellite phones made by Kyocera and Motorola seems a bit high, globetrotters on tight budgets might consider Iridium's $500 Go Anywhere pager instead. When Iridium's 66-satellite network becomes operational--which is supposed to happen next month--the little pager will receive messages anywhere in the world. Usage fees aren't set, but could be $50 to $100 a month...
...CONTAX G1 Look elsewhere for a point-and-shooter. This ingenious titanium beauty is a remarkable hybrid of two previously implacable classes: rangefinder and single-lens-reflex cameras. Manufactured by Kyocera, the G1 combines the compact, noiseless flexibility of a rangefinder with the auto-everything magic of SLRs--minus the blinking lights, beeping sounds and bulk. With its four state-of-the-art Carl Zeiss T* lenses, the G1 is a thoroughly modern version of the classic Leica, proof that retro is the wave of the future...
Some powerful companies have even managed to raise their prices during the yen's ascent without fear of losing business. These companies, with names like Kyocera and Minebea, control vast global markets for little-known but essential items such as ceramic packages for semiconductors and precision-engineered ball bearings for jet engines. In a controversial new book called Blindside, journalist Eamonn Fingleton argues that these firms help ensure that Japan will overtake the U.S. as the world's leading economy by the year 2000. "Their success to date has been greater than most Americans realize," he writes, "and constitutes...
...where the use of new materials is confined mainly to aerospace and the military, Japanese manufacturers are concentrating almost exclusively on industrial and consumer applications. In addition, they have been avidly buying materials technology from abroad. In the past four years, some of Japan's leading producers, such as Kyocera and Tokuyama, have acquired four American firms, including AVX, a New York City manufacturer of specialized ceramics, and Materials Research, an Orangeburg, N.Y., company that makes high-purity metals...
...opening up the U.S. postal system to competition." Japanese and foreign firms will be able to sell products and services that until now have been the exclusive province of NTT. Corporate powerhouses like the Japan Highway Public Corp. (1983 sales: $2.9 billion) already plan to offer long-distance services. Kyocera, an electronic-products company, intends to build microwave transmission systems...