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...Ichiro Murata...
...Older Japanese need all the help they can get to break their stubborn devotion to work, a legacy of the postwar struggle to rebuild the economy. For younger people, untouched by those hard times, taking time off is easier. Yoshiko Murata, 23, who works in public affairs at Toyota, last year took four vacation trips, two each to Europe and Hawaii. Last May she went to Bali and loved it. "My friends and I were reluctant to leave," recalls Murata, "but we said, 'Let's work hard so we can come back again.' " Her boss, Kimiaki Kuroki, 42, has taken...
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...import 18,860 bbl. for his Lions Petroleum Co., which is based near Tokyo. But MITI had other ideas. The ministry had previously ruled that only crude oil, not gasoline, may enter Japan. Refining is done domestically. When word of Satoh's purchase got out, MITI Minister Keijiro Murata sent him an "advice" that bluntly warned, "Do not import that gasoline." Satoh's friendly banker warned him to heed MITI. That did it. Said Satoh: "I had no choice but to surrender...
...COURSE, as the show reminds us, Buck-minster Fuller did get his Plexiglas and steel dome built at Expo. For the Osaka fair Yutaka Murata plans a blow-up amphitheatre of pneumatic PVC tubes, shaped like a locus of horseshoes. Other inflatables pictured include a dome and a space-capsule-shaped weekend house...