Word: nippon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...busky-cheeked from golf and gin, affluent and amiable. The song they were singing sent a charge of shock through the bar: "Monday and Monday, Tuesday, Wed nesday, Thursday, Friday and Friday.". It was a battle song of the Japanese Imperial Navy, extolling daily dedication to the glory of Nippon. As the singing died away, the men spontaneously turned to reminiscences of Rabaul and Savo Island, Bataan and Okinawa. "Wasn't it great," said one, "those days...
...world's biggest piano maker is not Steinway, Winter or Wurlitzer, but a relatively unknown Japanese company named Nippon Gakki that won its for tune during World War II by making airplane propellers. Nippon Gakki is one of Japan's most successfully diversi fied corporations, with 1963 sales of $99 million. It now makes motorcycles, bathtubs, glass-fiber skis, transistorized electric organs. But the company's most notable achievement is the recent success of its second oldest product line: pianos. Last week Nippon Gakki announced that it will build a modern $4,100,000 plant that will...
...Nippon Gakki got its name (literally, Japan Musical Instruments) from Founder Torakusu Yamaha, a medical equipment engineer who began making reed organs as a hobby in 1897, two years later branched into pianos. The company was near bankruptcy by 1926, but gradually found that aircraft parts could be made by using some of the same manufacturing techniques that were used for organs. After the war, the firm turned back to less martial music. Taking over the presidency from his ailing father in 1950, Genichi Kawakami, now 51, decided to replace the ancient handcrafter's art of piano making with...
...great 1923 earthquake turned Tokyo into a shambles, forced editors to rely on a small signal-corps flock. The birds soon earned the title "Hato-san."* As recently as 1959, when a typhoon smashed the industrial city of Nagoya, leaving telephone and wirephoto services dead, the Nagoya Chubu Nippon used its 200 birds to rush negatives from inundated suburbs...
Xenarios got some small financial backing from a friend to set up the Chalcidice Mining Co., received a grant for further explorations from the Greek government. Japan's Nippon Mining Co. joined up with the company for a $350,000 exploratory expedition, last week had a team of Japanese experts working over the deposits. If the Japanese are satisfied by the find, they promise to put up $3,000,000 to form a new company with Chalcidice Mining, buy the copper output and ship it to Japan. Xenarios confidently expects a top position in the new company...