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...golf-mad Japan, the biggest swinger of all may be industrialist Minoru Isutani, whose Cosmo World Corp. controls more than 10 Japanese courses and is rapidly developing sites in the U.S. and Europe. Last week Isutani scored the investment equivalent of a hole in one when he agreed to pay an estimated $900 million for the Pebble Beach Co., which operates four golf courses on California's Monterey Peninsula that rank among the world's most scenic. The deal makes Pebble Beach the jewel of Isutani's international golf empire, which includes courses under development in Los Angeles, Las Vegas...
...Furuya died, the Tigers were scheduled to play the Yomiurim Giants in the Tokyo Dome stadium. They went ahead with the game, but not before Manager Minoru Murayama declared the team wanted to win at any cost, in memory of Furuya. They lost...
World-renowned architect Minoru Yamasaki used his designs for William James Hail, built in 1963, as a testing ground for his World Trade Towers in New York City. Although the 15-story edifice has been praised for its slender beauty, a 1973 survey of Cambridge architecture called it a sore thumb in its current location...
Nippon Kokan President Minoru Kanao said that the venture is "in line with our long-cherished strategy to obtain a production outpost in the U.S." He wants to sell steel to the Japanese automakers that are building assembly lines in America, but Kanao feared that Washington might raise protectionist barriers. Imports from Japan, South Korea, Mexico and other countries have captured about 25% of the American steel market, and U.S. companies are pressuring Congress to limit the foreign share...
...time when some of his colleagues have difficulty selling anything but their umpteenth La Bohème, Gaddes has found an audience for the new and the unusual. The current season is typical: the American premiere of Japanese Composer Minoru Miki's An Actor's Revenge, a double bill consisting of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's The Secret of Susanna and Frederick Delius' last opera, Fennimore and Gerda (also an American premiere), Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Verdi's Rigoletto, all sung in English...