Word: nagoya
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...some workaholic Japanese, ignoring vacations is no longer an option. Jusco, a supermarket chain, has ordered a mandatory month-long annual holiday for workers at middle-management level and above. Hitoshi Murakami, 36, a Nagoya store manager, spent his enforced leisure time hiking around his local prefecture, visiting his 90-year-old grandmother in Osaka, and for the first time since joining the company 14 years ago, taking a trip with his wife and her family, to the seaside town of Toba. Murakami also attended the Japanese equivalent of a PTA meeting, his first ever, and discovered that his eight...
...from Japan in nearly two decades, the exhibition was organized by Thomas Sokolowski of New York University's Grey Art Gallery and Study Center and Kathy Halbreich, formerly of M.I.T.'s List Visual Arts Center, along with Fumio Nanjo of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Nagoya, Japan, and Shinji Kohmoto of the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto. It will run in San Francisco through Aug. 6, then travel to Akron, Boston, Seattle, Cincinnati, New York City and Houston through early...
...even money seemed to matter. One TV network replaced a popular comedy show with a commercial-free program on baby elephants. The city of Nagoya dutifully passed up an anticipated $35 million windfall when it called off a grand celebration for its pennant-winning baseball team. Only the nation's flagmakers were cashing in. "I'm not supposed to feel happy, but our sales have zoomed more than tenfold," said Makoto Kobayashi, president of Hinomaruya, a Tokyo flag wholesaler...
...when Seoul beat out Nagoya in archrival Japan for the right to stage the 1988 Summer Games, South Koreans looked at the event as a welcome opportunity to throw themselves an elaborate coming-out party. Invite the people of the world, and let them admire the economic miracle that had risen from the rubble...
...world's leading industrial nations are in a race of another kind. Quick to recognize the commercial potential of the new development, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry plans to subsidize private-sector research, and will establish a center in Nagoya to test equipment made from * superconducting materials. In Washington, the Department of Energy has decided to double this year's research support for superconductors to $40 million; it is also compiling a computerized database that will enable American scientists to keep up to date on fast-breaking superconductor research results, and will co-sponsor a White House...