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...think this is very much Toyota's fault, and its recent failings are just the tip of the iceberg. Japanese engineers and businessmen must seize the moment to renew the world's faith in their industry. Yukihiro Nishimura Osaka, Japan...
...Almost all the dolphins caught in Japan are sold for meat near the towns where they're caught, and only 1% - a few dozen - are sold live to aquariums. Masashi Nishimura, manager of the Japan Fisheries Association's international section, who also works with environmental issues, says most Japanese people don't know much about the dolphin hunts. "I don't think it's a big topic here," he says. "As long as [their killing] is humane, dolphins are like other animals to us." The most humane technique, according to Nishimura, would be to use high-tech machines to minimize...
...dormant Tokyo art market healthy again, there's a hunger for new painters who keep up time-honored skills. "You have to be based in the tradition, but if you can maintain that, and at the same time do something new, that's a formula for success," says Kenji Nishimura, a veteran Tokyo art dealer. Like many supposedly venerable Japanese traditions, however, nihonga actually isn't that ancient. The term was coined during the Meiji period in the late 1800s, when artists and critics-including a number of Japanophile European expatriates-became alarmed at the way the country seemed...
...professor of art history at Tokyo's Meiji Gakuin University, calls Machida perhaps the best of the neo-nihonga artists, and three of her works are already in the public collection of New York City's Museum of Modern Art. "She always has people ready to buy," says Nishimura, the art dealer. "My biggest problem is that I can't fulfill everyone's orders...
...Things are looking so rosy, in fact, that the BOJ has begun to fret that the biggest danger is that the economy will expand too rapidly. BOJ policy-board member Kiyohiko Nishimura has warned that low rates could promote "useless, excessive investment," and Fukui has vowed to raise rates "without delay" should investment become rampant. Those fears may be coming to pass. Last week's much-watched Tankan business-sentiment survey indicated that Japan's largest companies plan to increase investment at the quickest pace in 16 years. "The Tankan survey showed the economic climate is slightly overheated," says Takeo...