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Dismaying though the financial trends concerning Japan may be, economics alone cannot explain the current media attitude any more than the immigration levels of the early 1900s could explain the Nippon hysteria of those years. But modern-day Japan is hardly a suitable candidate for press pity. American reporters have a duty to be tough minded in their exploration of Japanese business practices. Yet publications have all too frequently reached for easy headlines and analyses that evoke some of the worse aspects of the yellow- peril era. That is unfortunate. For, to the extent that coverage of Japanese business...
...others to open next season in Tokyo. Japan's association with American baseball, of course, goes back to Babe Ruth. Just last November, on a typical All-Star tour, the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser capped his nearly scoreless autumn by yielding a Ruthian homer to Fujio Tamura of the Nippon Ham Fighters ("I was told he couldn't hit a curve ball"). But Japan is importing all sports now, and the Los Angeles Rams will confront the San Francisco 49ers there in August...
...adventurous diners can sample fugu outside Asia. Last week eight restaurants in Manhattan began serving the delicacy with approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which had conducted a four-year review of the importing venture arranged by Nobuyoshi Kuraoka, the proprietor of New York City's Nippon Restaurant. The puffer fish will be processed only by fugu chefs in the southern Japanese city of Shimonoseki, which has not lost a customer in 50 years. Japanese government officials will verify tetrodotoxin levels before the fugu is flash-frozen and flown to New York. Cost of a full- course fugu...
Three dark-suited men jumped from a car outside a Tokyo hospital last week and disappeared into the building. When they emerged, district prosecutors had arrested silver-haired Hisashi Shinto, 78, the powerful former chairman of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone. Within days, Takashi Kato, a former Vice Minister of Labor, was also taken into custody by authorities...
...finally admitted that an aide had taken part in the Recruit offerings, using the Minister's name. Ironically, the fall of Miyazawa strengthened the political position of Takeshita, since the men had been rivals in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Five days later, Hisashi Shinto, chairman of the giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, stepped aside after conceding his involvement in the Recruit stock deal...