Word: morishita
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...countries like Australia don't want to eat whales, fine. But they have no right to impose their value judgments on us." JOJI MORISHITA, Japanese delegate to the International Whaling Commission. At its annual conference this week, pro-whaling Japan hopes to gain enough votes to relax a 20-year-old ban on the hunting of humpbacks and fins
Aska International, the Tokyo art gallery that spent $25 million at the Dorrance sale, is controlled by Aichi Corp., a Tokyo firm that last September became one of the five largest shareholders of Christie's stock, with 6.4%. Aichi, in turn, is controlled by Yasumichi Morishita, a secretive businessman who got a one-year suspended sentence in Tokyo in 1986 for securities fraud. Morishita is reputedly worth a trillion yen ($7 billion), and may be planning a takeover of Christie's -- although it is unlikely that the Monopolies and Mergers Commission would approve...
| 1 |