Word: sanyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...potential penalties are high. The U.S. importers−such as the large retailers and the U.S. subsidiaries of Matsushita, Sharp, Sanyo and Toshiba−could be required to pay dumping duties totaling $500 million owed on $2 billion worth of sets imported since 1971. In addition, the U.S.owned retailers could face civil fraud penalties totaling $1 billion and criminal fines of $5,000 for each shipment of TVs brought in under a false import declaration. But the prospect is for a less painful out-of-court settlement. Says one Treasury lawyer: "Nobody wants to see the Government take...
...avoid paying dumping duties. This is the probe that has turned up the kickback charges. The second investigation is by the U.S. International Trade Commission. Its lawyers are checking the possibility of unfair trade practices by the Japanese (a noncriminal charge), and they have talked to officials of Hitachi, Sanyo, Sharp, Toshiba and Mitsubishi...
However, the Japanese are allowed to assemble as many sets as they wish in the U.S.-so long as American workers provide 40% of the labor required to turn them into finished products. Three big TV makers-Sony, Sanyo and Matsushita-already own U.S. plants. Two others, Toshiba and Mitsubishi, are on the verge of opening production facilities in the U.S., which will, of course, create jobs for Americans...
...climbing into the Ningen Sentakuki will emerge moments later -scrubbed clean by hot water, massaged by small rubber spheres that are churned by high-frequency sound, and dried by the heat of an infra-red lamp. But at $6,600, the "human washing machine" developed by Osaka's Sanyo Electric Co. is out of reach of all but the filthy rich...
...Clues. "They came by bus, by put-putting Rototillers, aboard army trucks borrowed for an afternoon from ARVN," wrote TIME's Rauch. "Those who had time to pack chose peculiar things to salvage: one family had a refrigerator in a wheelbarrow, nothing else. A lieutenant carried an enormous Sanyo sound system, still in its carton and minus the speakers, strapped to the back of his motorbike. Nearly everyone seems to have a pig. Pigs are strapped onto Honda seats, pigs are tied onto front bumpers, pigs hang in wire cages from tail gates and are slung from poles that...