Word: minoru
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JAPAN Mori MORI BUILDING/MORI TRUST Minoru and Akira Mori split up and built successful real estate companies on their own. One brother now talks of building Utopia, while the other is content to just build 2003 Revenues: $2.25 billion...
...High-Priced Digs Your article "The Families That Own Asia" [Feb. 23] told of the Minoru and Akira Mori family and its real estate developments. The family's construction business has been remaking central Tokyo's skyline. But you might have noted that rental apartments in Mori buildings are quite expensive. The average Japanese family has a monthly budget of about $2,900. That entire amount would not be enough to rent even the humblest Mori apartment. No doubt the public areas of bold developments such as Roppongi Hills have created something that contribute to society-places to visit, have...
...that compete globally for high-profile acoustical consulting projects like the Disney Hall, Nagata Acoustics, a Japanese firm, was an unusual choice for such a signature American arts venue. The private company, which has 14 employees and $2.5 million a year in revenue, was founded 32 years ago by Minoru Nagata, a sound engineer for Japan's main public broadcaster, NHK. In postwar Japan, "classical music was still very foreign," says Nagata, now 78 and semi-retired, though still an adviser to the company. So was acoustic science. "We had only Western texts and trial and error...
...Your article "Tomorrowland" described building tycoon Minoru Mori's self-appointed mission to improve Tokyo's "terrible" quality of life and make the city more livable. Mori deserves credit because he's looking to cut commuting times from three hours to a few minutes?for a select group of people, that is, those who can afford to pay. The monthly rents for bigger units at Mori's Roppongi Hills complex are higher than $8,500. That only a minuscule percentage of Tokyo's residents can afford this luxury housing is perhaps a minor detail to Mori. Amitabh Shukla Tokyo...
...plan, the easy pipeline of money from complacent banks to profitless companies would be cut off, giving these companies no choice but to shut down and throw their workers out on the street. "Companies are going to go under and Japan offers no support for the unemployed," frets Minoru Morita, a prominent political analyst. Already, LDP politicians and Tokyo bankers are circulating a list of 51 companies presumed likely to meet with peril under the plan?including retailer Mitsukoshi, video gamemaker Sega and trading outfit Nissho Iwai, plus a slew of construction, heavy machinery and real estate companies. Goldman Sachs...