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Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold's report on the rival Japanese auto industry is written from a unique perspective. He was Detroit bureau chief for seven years and now is able to study firsthand America's deadliest commercial competitors. There are notable differences in style, he reports: "Detroit's press previews used to be orchestrated like TV spectaculars, with carefully scripted speeches, followed by eating and drinking and Ella Fitzgerald singing, Minnesota Fats doing billiard tricks, or Glenn Miller's band creating nostalgia. The merchandising was razzle-dazzle, the sales claims often outrageous and heady...
...political ambitions," but he added to his personal power last month by appointing himself acting chief of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, a key post formerly held by Kim Jae Kyu, Park's convicted assassin. In a three-hour talk with TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin M. Reingold and Correspondent S. Chang in Seoul last week, shortly before the army crackdown, Chun showed little eagerness for lifting martial law soon, and warned of a new military threat from North Korea. Excerpts from the conversation, the first he has ever held with foreign journalists...
...Japan's domestic markets are highly competitive, Japanese businessmen and government officials do not see one another as adversaries but as collaborators on behalf of the economy. They worked together, for example, in meeting the automobile pollution problem early in the 1970s. Reports TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold, who previously was stationed in Detroit: "Unlike the U.S. Congress and successive Administrations, the Japanese did not pick nice-sounding numbers out of the smog and set standards that nobody knew how to meet. Instead, they handled the emissions problem scientifically, taking cost-benefit ratios into account in order...
...Munro and members of the Tokyo bureau kept tabs on the European and Canadian delegations to the summit, who were housed, inconveniently enough, some miles away from the U.S. envoys. "The heavy security was a joke to some correspondents, an annoyance to others," said Tokyo Bureau Chief Ed Reingold. "We were scrutinized by more police at more places more times than anywhere in the world...
...weeks ago, North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, was the site of the world table tennis championships and reunification talks between Kim and United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Among the few American reporters who have been allowed to travel inside North Korea is TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold. His report...