Word: nagoya
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...privatized the national phone company, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, Japan's government divided the country into two cellular-phone regions, with NTT operating in both and one fully private competitor in each. Though it has flourished elsewhere in Japan, Motorola maintains that it has been handicapped in the Tokyo-Nagoya corridor, the more profitable of the two areas, where its phones are incompatible with the NTT transmitting system...
...part of an agreement to give Motorola "comparable market access" -- reached in 1989 after Washington threatened reprisals -- the Japanese government provided the company a slice of the cellular-phone bandwidth in the Tokyo-Nagoya region. There was a catch: Motorola's new transmitting equipment would have to be installed by IDO, the wholly private cellular operator in that area. Called upon to build facilities for a competitor, IDO dragged its feet. In 1992, at Motorola's request, Washington sought and gained a follow-up agreement to speed construction...
After considerable searching, the panel admitted, it had found no American contractor that would agree to accept the revised specs. To save face for Angelenos, the new contract includes a Sumitomo commitment to ship cars from its Nagoya factory to Los Angeles in partly completed condition -- thus creating 79 assembly jobs in Los Angeles -- and to spend 60% of the contract's value...
...lives in Nagoya, Japan's fourth largest city, working with just one coach, Machiko Yamada, and even living with her since Ito's parents separated 11 years ago. Albertville will be the culmination of 17 years' work for both women, and they are planning a program with somewhat more focus on artistry. It is unlikely, though, that they will try to imitate the lithe and pretty Yamaguchi. Says Yamada: "I always stress with Midori that this is a sport...
...English soccer fans are devastated. Their top scoring ace, GARY LINEKER, is moving to the Grampus Eight club of Nagoya, Japan, in a deal worth nearly $9 million. Japan, where professional soccer will get under way in 1993, wants to become a global force in the sport. Such companies as Matsushita, Mazda and Toyota, which have invested in soccer teams, are luring world-class players to kick-start the action...