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...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...
...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...
...discovered off the north coast of Japan's main island of Honshu, many engineers doubted that it would ever be possible to pipe it across the island's mountainous volcanic spine to fuel-hungry Tokyo. Last week 5-ft.-tall Shige Kawata, 75, president of the steelmaking Nippon Kokan company, watched the gas start to flow through a 208-mile pipeline that his firm built in less than a year and guarantees to be earthquake-proof. An avid sportsman who is president of the Japan Basketball Association and holds the fifth degree in judo, Kawata argues that...
...biggest: Tokyo's Nippon Oil, with 1961 sales of $333 million...