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...private room at a posh shinjuku crab restaurant, five twentysomethings surround Noboru Koyama, 60, CEO of Tokyo cleaning company Musashino. Koyama looks at his watch--it's 8:30 p.m.--and announces that the party is moving. "O.K.," Koyama says briskly, "we'll do hotel bar, sushi, drag-queen show, hostess club, in that order." The young salarymen, who volunteered to spend Saturday night with their boss, gasp. "We're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Inc. Is Drinking Again | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...private room at a posh Shinjuku crab restaurant, five twentysomethings surround Noboru Koyama, 60-year-old CEO of Tokyo cleaning company Musashino. Koyama looks at his watch - it's 8:30 p.m. - and announces that the party is moving: "O.K.," Koyama says briskly, "we'll do hotel bar, sushi, drag-queen show, hostess club, in that order." The young salarymen, who volunteered to spend Saturday night with their boss, gasp. "We're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relax, the Company's Buying | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...days earlier, day raiders escorted by fighters from Iwo Jima had hammered Tokyo's Musashino-Nakajima factory for the eighth time, and others had blasted an aircraft factory in Koriyama, 110 miles north of Tokyo-the most northerly target so far attacked. From reconnaissance photographs, the results of last fortnight's raid on Nagoya were read: the Mitsubishi plant almost completely destroyed, 90% of the roofing gone over the whole target area. This week Tokyo was hit again-the third time in five days-by B-29s in "very great strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: New Weapon, Old Results | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...planes came to the Superfortresses as they droned in on their fixed bomb-run courses over the Mitsubishi engine plant at Nagoya and the Musashino-Nakajima factory in a Tokyo suburb. The big planes met them with a hail of fire, shot down 136. The remaining 37 fell to the Mustangs, which had to chase their prey. Five U.S. bombers and two fighters were lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: First Installments | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

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