Word: mizuno
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...weekend road trip to Texas provided no opportunity to rest for Harvard’s women’s volleyball team. Taking part in the Mizuno Invitational II at Rice University, Harvard (2-5) faced unyielding competition from South Carolina, Rice, and No. 23 Wichita State. The Crimson fell in each of the three contests, typically by slim margins in set-play.“The way that we played in some of those games was an affirmation that we can play with the best of the best,” sophomore Sandra Lynn Fryhofer said.Fryhofer posted impressive individual numbers...
...About 40% of the cars Toyota sells in the U.S. are made in Japanese factories, and "due to significant yen appreciation, those exports are not profitable anymore," says Tatsuya Mizuno, an analyst at FitchRatings. It will take Toyota time to adjust its fixed costs, since it has spent the past several years investing aggressively to increase production capacity by about 500,000 vehicles per year in the U.S. "It's increasingly clear that the driving force [behind Toyota's recent growth] was really excess consumption in the U.S.," says Izumi of JPMorgan Securities, "and that's now unwinding...
Ichiro's reverence for the bat came to him during a 1992 visit to the wise man of batmaking, 64-year-old Isokazu Kubota, master craftsman for equipment manufacturer Mizuno Technics Corp. Over the past 49 years, Kubota has made custom-designed wooden bats for more than 1,500 professional players, including Pete Rose and Hideki Matsui...
...everyone was interested in the car. It gets very emotional." Hasegawa points to conflict between the engineering and design teams but says, "Compared to a normal project, we were more strongly conscious of being members of a team," and adds that building the GT-R was their shared goal. Mizuno reduced that task to its four core elements: engine, transmission, suspension and body design. Nissan hopes to use the same structure for the design of its Z and Cube models...
...further proof of Nissan's global dna--it is, after all, a Japanese company run by a Frenchman--Nissan has never deviated from keeping the GT-R's image rooted in Japan. (Ghosn's steering committee even toyed with the idea of linking the GT-R with Godzilla.) Mizuno often says that the car was born in Japan and raised in Germany. The GT-R, he says, is an expression of the Japanese senpai-kohai system, in which the more experienced teach their juniors. The GT-R team simply took that Japanese concept and exported it to build...