Word: matsuda
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Last fall A.J.A.s took over two principal bastions of Caucasian (haole in Hawaiian) power and status. George Ariyoshi was elected the state's Governor, and Fujio ("Fudge") Matsuda was appointed president of the University of Hawaii. Both men are nisei, or second-generation Americans; Ariyoshi's father had been a sumo wrestler in Japan. Today only two non-A.J.A.s hold major elective offices in Hawaii: U.S. Senator Hiram Fong, who is of Chinese ancestry, and Frank Fasi, mayor of Honolulu, an Italian American. A rundown of other important Hawaiian politicians reads like an A.J.A...
...plans lies in meeting the high bill for oil-up from $7 billion in 1973 to an estimated $15 billion this year. To do that, Japan will push exports hard while stepping up its battle against inflation at home. Says Takamasa Matsuda, director of research at the Fuji Bank: "The higher oil costs affect every nation, not Japan alone. The increased import costs can be partially absorbed by higher export prices, and the rest of it will be absorbed by more efficient energy use within the country...
Some casualties of the Viet Nam War will never surface in the statistics. One of them is Morihiro Matsuda, a Korean who now lives in Japan. Four years ago, Matsuda put his life savings into $63,800 worth of advertising in five U.S. and British newspapers. His message: a tortuous 12,325-word essay arguing that peace in Viet Nam can be achieved only if the U.S. and the Communists make mutual concessions. The U.S., he said, should lay out as much as $10 billion, if necessary, to construct a "paradise" for Vietnamese victims of the war. Today Matsuda...