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...work on expansive elements such as spirals and intricate footwork sequences. Things aren't much better in Japan, where crowded sessions forced Asada, as an up-and-coming talent in the early 2000s, to train for a few years in California before returning to a new rink built in Nagoya. (See a brief history of Olympic sore losers...
...grasped the seriousness of the situation and tried to make amends. "I apologize from the bottom of my heart for all the concern that we have given to so many of our customers," a chastened Akio Toyoda, grandson of the corporation's legendary founder, Kiichiro Toyoda, told reporters in Nagoya, taking the requisite deep bow of the disgraced...
...people in the town work in auto-related industries. The entire region is connected to Toyota, with independent suppliers of parts spread through the surrounding countryside and nearby cities. "Toyota is the biggest company in this area," says Masahiko Hosokawa, a business professor at Chubu University in Nagoya, the closest major metropolis to Toyota City. If Toyota's crisis depresses its global sales, "it will have an impact here," he says. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...raise your share price: turn employees into customers. But that trick - what some Toyota department heads in Nagoya, Japan, did this week by asking managers to purchase new cars by the end of the fiscal year - won't stop Toyota's sliding stock. As a stronger yen continues to batter Japanese exporters selling into depressed economies around the world, the Nikkei 225 stock index dances around its 26-year...
...G.education, a Nagoya-based English-tuition chain, threw Nova a lifeline, agreeing to take over its operations. But it only plans to reopen some 200 of Nova's 669 remaining schools, and it won't be refunding fees, although some rival institutes are offering discounts for Nova students. That won't help former teachers like Kristen Moon, a 23-year-old English-education major from Philadelphia, who has been scraping by on private lessons she now gives to her former Nova students. "I'm living hand to mouth," she says. "Nova has ruined a lot of people's lives...