Word: marubeni
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first projects was to document Japan's huge role in the tropical-timber trade in a study published by the World Wildlife Fund. To make sure the message hit home, Kuroda staged a series of publicity stunts in Tokyo. In 1989, he marshaled the press in front of Marubeni, a timber importer, and presented bewildered officials with a giant cardboard chainsaw as a grand prize for rain-forest destruction...
Eight other organizations had joined in the suit, but only Harvard and one other plaintiff, Marubeni America Corp., reached agreements with the firm this week...