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...cellular-phone problem illustrates how even the most competitive American products -- Motorola claims 40% of the global cellular market -- can be tripped up in Japan. In 1987, when it privatized the national phone company, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, Japan's government divided the country into two cellular-phone regions, with NTT operating in both and one fully private competitor in each. Though it has flourished elsewhere in Japan, Motorola maintains that it has been handicapped in the Tokyo-Nagoya corridor, the more profitable of the two areas, where its phones are incompatible with the NTT transmitting system...
...McCaw Cellular , Communications, the nation's biggest cellular operator, which is being acquired by AT&T for $12.6 billion. Even though it will cost at least $2.5 billion to rebuild the SMR system into a cellular network, Nextel, which is backed by Comcast Corp. and Japan's Matsushita & Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, intends to have a coast-to-coast wireless network up and running...
Years of cajoling and lecturing had done no good. In a society where white- collar workers burn the midnight oil as a matter of routine, tougher action was needed. So henceforward, Nippon Steel will switch off the electricity at its Tokyo headquarters at 10 p.m., forcing the workaholics among its 3,300 employees to suspend work and go home. Those who try to make up for the lost hours on Sunday will find the doors locked...
...such thing as a private sector in Japan. Either that or there is nothing but the private sector. For years Japan Inc. has had a one- dimensional foreign policy: what's good for Japanese exports is good for Japan. Since there were many times more customers for Toyota and Nippon Steel in the Arab and Islamic worlds than in Israel, Japan abided by the boycott...
When it finally does appear, it may not be American. A group of 13 Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi and Nippon Electric, has teamed with the government's Ministry of International Trade and Industry to launch a ten-year optical-research program. Given the Japanese record in electronics, their interest in optical computers may be the best evidence that Huang and AT&T are on to something...