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...financial advantages of investments in environmental technology, says Hugh Faulkner, executive director of the Business Council for Sustainable Development. The council was set up to advise the Earth Summit about industry's views on environmental issues. After a year's work, executives from such firms as Chevron, Mitsubishi, Royal Dutch/ Shell and Volkswagen agreed on a set of business principles, including the need for sustainable management of resources, the charging of environmental costs against corporate profits, and the rule that polluters, not the public, must pay for cleanup...
ECOBRAZIL '92, Anhembi Park Convention Center, Sao Paulo, June 6-11 An environmental-technology trade fair, EcoBrazil '92 will showcase the latest in pollution-control and other green equipment from 85 Brazilian companies and dozens of foreign firms, including Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi and Sun Electric...
Sony. Toyota. Honda. Mitsubishi. Nikon. Ricoh. Toshiba. There seems no escaping Japan in the U.S. these days. But just try to escape America in Japan, especially if you are young and yearn to be hip in Tokyo. America is an essential element of growing up urban in Japan...
...chief executive of Minolta's U.S. operations for 22 years, argues with some plausibility, "It's hard to blame Japan for the recession in the U.S. Ford, GM and Zenith are moving their plants to Mexico. American companies are giving up manufacturing in this country, while Sony, Toshiba and Mitsubishi are coming here and opening up major plants. When things go wrong, we have to find some excuse, and the Japanese are becoming some sort of scapegoat...
...fairness. Americans entertain a profound respect for the talents of the Japanese, for their hard work, their intelligence, their high standards of quality. James Kielt is a retired envelope and paper salesman in Freeport, N.Y., who served in the Navy during World War II. Says he, remembering the Mitsubishi fighters and bombers of the Pacific war: "I probably would have trouble buying a Mitsubishi." He drives a Toyota Tercel. Says his friend John Wood, a retired retail chain executive: "The Japanese are probably more industrious than we. And I think we are getting lazy in this country...