Word: nippon
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...regime. Eisenberg followed in 1940 but found no business opportunities in China that time around. So he sailed for Japan, thinking he might make it to the U.S. But in Japan he met a family active in the steel business and began selling iron ore principally to their company, Nippon Steel. A year later, he married Leah Freudlsberger, whose father was an art lecturer at a Tokyo university and whose mother was from a distinguished Japanese family. When the war ended, Eisenberg's fortunes took off. He sold the U.S. army of occupation kitchen and bathroom equipment made of aluminum...
...friendly technology is potentially big business, and one in which Japanese firms still have a tremendous competitive advantage. Toshiba's Westinghouse unit, for example, (yes, once part of a famous U.S. company) is building four advanced nuclear reactors in China at about $3 billion to $4 billion each. Nippon Steel, Japan's largest steelmaker, introduced a type of eco-friendly coke-making technology called dry-quenching in China that has become widely used throughout the industry. It produces the coke, a form of carbon essential for making steel, by cooling it with nitrogen rather than water, which significantly reduces...
While Japanese fans cheered the lightning series, the country's baseball organization, the Nippon Professional Baseball league (NPB) grumbled. Its best players are migrating to the States. American games are cutting into the Japanese pastime's TV ratings. And now this latest spit in its eye just as NPB opening week commenced. Complained Yomiuri Giants pitching star Koji Uehara, "We're just starting our season. So why does the MLB have to come to play here. There's nothing to be gained from this." Added a Japanese professional baseball official, who wished to remain anonymous, "Every time the MLB holds...
...cubing has potent mainstream appeal in Japan, the six-member Nippon team was followed to Budapest by two television news crews. And according to other cubers, the Japanese contingent, surrounded by an adoring entourage and paparazzi, arrived at their hotel on the eve of the championships like "rock stars...
...procession of the 47 client-airline CEOs with representative flight stewards, from All Nippon to Kenya Airways, kicked off the event. Boeing CEO Jim McNerney then spoke of the advantages of the new jetliner and introduced Brokaw, who called the 787 "a rock star of the future" and announced the 677 orders. The pixilated numbers appeared in story-high brilliance on each side of the stage and a roar overtook the building. The managers and workers of Boeing's supply partners who collaborated to develop the 787 joined the event via satellite from six locations, including Fuji, Kawasaki and Mitsubishi...