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...market. With the Valiant and the popular Dodge Dart, Chrysler today has the largest share (32%) of compact-car sales, but its biggest product investment last year was in a costly redesign of its full-sized cars. Its one subcompact, the Dodge Colt, is built by Japan's Mitsubishi, and has not caught on especially well with U.S. buyers. Chrysler does plan to introduce three new compacts this fall, but the one new subcompact on its drawing boards will be built by Chrysler's French subsidiary and not imported into...
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...contributions, the L.D.P. has managed to accumulate a huge war chest. Some Tokyo papers estimate that the Liberal Democrats have spent about $142 million on the election so far. The party, moreover, is receiving the open support of the great zaikai (conglomerates) for the first time. Some firms, including Mitsubishi, Hitachi and Toyota, are "sponsoring" their own L.D.P. candidates. Mitsubishi, for instance, is backing one of its employees, ex-Policeman Ken Saka, for a national seat; the company's interest in Saka is not likely to be lost on the 850,000 employees of Mitsubishi and its affiliates...
...September of 1972 a gift of $1 million from Mitsubishi Industries to the Law School established a chair in Japanese legal studies with an endowed professorship. One year later, the Japan Foundation--an organization sponsored by the Japanese government--announced it would donate $10 million to American universities, one-tenth of which was presented to Harvard by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka on January 16, 1974, Toyota joined with Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.--the manufacturer of Datsun cars and trucks--in giving the institute an additional million dollars aimed at construction of a new building near the Yenching Library. This...
Previous gifts to Harvard from Japanese sources include a recent $1 million grant to the Law School from the Mitsubishi group of industries...