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Among the most talked about is the Attackers Business School. Founded by Kenichi Ohmae, an illustrious Tokyo business figure who has dabbled in politics, Attackers offers a six-month course with guest lectures by star entrepreneurs like Softbank's Masayoshi Son and Masahiro Origuchi, the 38-year-old chairman of Goodwill Group, a prospering new agency for temporary workers. "These are the Michael Dells of Japan," says Ohmae. "The bright ones are jumping off the old companies, which are going to end up destroyed...
...move coordinated with the regulators, a federal grand jury in New York City indicted the bank on 24 criminal counts of conspiracy and fraud connected with a cover-up of Iguchi's losses. That could lead to $1.3 billion in fines if the bank is convicted. Masahiro Tsuda, general manager of Daiwa's New York City office, was charged with taking part in a conspiracy with the bank and Iguchi, who last month pleaded guilty to concealing the losses. The moves were the most sweeping ever taken by the U.S. against so formidable a foreign lender. With $390 billion...
Mazda's marketing managers say they have no plans to exploit the 626's new citizenship status. Still, being a naturalized American with Japanese parents can have its complications. After the recent ridicule of U.S. workers by Japanese politicians, Mazda's Flat Rock president, Masahiro Uchida, sent around a note of apology to his American workers. "It was embarrassing," he said last week. "It was not helpful...
...many of them were born and bred in Japan during the early part of the century, when Korea was a Japanese colony. The 5,000 Indochinese refugees taken in by Japan after the Viet Nam War find assimilation all but impossible. "Japanese heartily welcome foreigners on short visits," explains Masahiro Tsubouchi of the Tokyo immigration office. "They just don't want them to stay forever...
...ingenuity as planning and shooting a film. Oshima financed his last three films with help from producers in France, Britain and New Zealand. Other directors may receive grants from the Art Theater Guild, which in the past 20 years has helped launch the careers of Oshima, Susumu Hani and Masahiro Shinoda. "If Japanese cinema hasn't become extinct," says Critic Sato, "it is because of the life-and-death efforts of directors who risk their own money and property to make movies...