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Tokyo developer Minoru Mori doesn't shy away from big projects. Coming swiftly in the wake of his successful Roppongi Hills development is the massive Omotesando Hills omotesandohills.com retail and residential complex, designed by Tadao Ando, the Japanese architect famous for his grand public buildings. Despite the plain concrete exteriors that are a staple of his work, Ando has managed to pay homage to the old apartment buildings the development has controversially replaced, with one section not only resembling the original facades, but also including a Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel...
...exercise, and I get sober," he says. Miura's enthusiasm for vigorous activity isn't rare among Japanese, who have the longest life spans in the world. Seniors there regularly break records. In 2002, Tamae Watanabe became the oldest woman to scale Everest, at 63, and 71-year-old Minoru Saito recently became the oldest person to sail solo around the world without stopping. "I thought my life after 70 was finished," says Saito, as weathered as a tugboat and as trim as a battleship. "But I could still keep doing things my way, with complete freedom." During...
...this week and is all but guaranteed to pass. His plans beyond that are hazy. Koizumi has promised to step down when his term as party president (and thus Prime Minister) expires in September 2006. But "one year is not enough to implement long-term policies," says political commentator Minoru Morita?meaning that other goals Koizumi once espoused, such as pension reform and slashing Japan's fiscal deficit, could be left on the shelf. And Koizumi's mandate is still fragile. Although the election aligned the LDP on postal reform, the party is far from united on other issues...
...them will occupy his corner office when he retires. "It'd be good for them to become independent and start their own companies," he says. "That way, they could learn management know-how. Nothing has been decided." And while two sons-in-law and one daughter work for Minoru, he too won't confirm whether any of them will one day take over the company. "I am open to management excellence wherever it may come from," Minoru says...
...Indeed, Minoru would prefer that Mori Building not be seen as a family company, even though his and his older brother Kei's immediate families own 100% of the stock. He dislikes the label because his mission diverges from what he considers the standard priorities of a family-run firm. "What we are doing is not to make money for the family," he says, "but to create something that contributes to the society." --By Jim Frederick. With reporting by Yuki Oda/Tokyo