Word: nagoya
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...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...
...From Boston to Chicago to Asia - the early '80s supergroup sold out a recent Japan tour - the bands "of yore," as Japanese concert promoter Keisuke Hirano calls them, can fill the halls of Yokohama or Osaka or Nagoya with middle-aged salarymen recapturing the youth they wished they had. And being "big in Japan" has kept many a washed-up rocker in leather pants and alimony payments...
...ignore its neighbors in favor of installation makers from the West. The Ogaki Biennale (Oct. 6-15) hopes to redress this with Japan's first major showing of Asian media artists. Held in a castle, a shrine and other venues in a small city half an hour outside Nagoya, Ogaki will feature up-and-coming names from Indonesia, India, China, the Philippines and South Korea. According to co-curator and Singaporean art theorist Gunalan Nadarajan, the event will allow visitors to examine the "culturally different notions of art, media and technology." Alternatively, they can simply let themselves be charmed...
...citizens, including a 4-year-old boy. It is high time for the U.S. and the world to rethink whether the Iraq war is still a fight for liberty and justice. If we fail to face the question, atrocities like the one in Haditha will happen again. Kayoko Suganuma Nagoya, Japan...