Word: nissan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have the billions needed for mass-producing a world car, but through their suppliers they can turn out a tremendous flow of parts in many countries. Says he: "This enormous access to components is the greatest strength of American efficiency in production." Japan's Takashi Ishihara, president of Nissan Motor, speaks as if the American challenge is a war. Says he: "We find ourselves on the eve of intense international competition with American automakers in the small-car market, which hitherto has been the Japanese makers' stronghold. From now on we will have to map out strategies...
...latest sign that labor leaders' clout with their membership is waning - an ominous portent for next year's heavy calendar of union bargaining. The VW strike is also unsettling other foreign firms that are thinking of starting plants in the U.S., notably Japan's automaking Toyota, Nissan (Datsun) and Honda. Says one Japanese automan: "If U.S. workers ask to get even with General Motors and Ford right away, I'm afraid no company will come here...
...Nissan Degani, an official in the Israeli Ministry of Education, is currently a Visiting Fellow at Harvard studying the philosophy of education...
...hopes to have by June of 1977. University Professor Edwin O. Reischauer and John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, were instrumental in tapping much of the $5.5 million that has come from East Asia so far. Not only are many of the largest Japanese firms such as Nissan, Toyota and Mitsubishi providing significant amounts but individual East Asian industrialists are also supplying funds. A group of private businessmen in Korea, for example, formed the Korean Traders Scholarship Foundation and donated $1 million last summer for a professorship in Modern Korean Economics and Society...
...Nissan and Toyota Motor Companies each contributed $1 million last year while the Korean Traders Association pledged $1 million to create a professorship in Modern Korean Economy and Society at Harvard...