Word: satoshi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until now, the Japanese industrial rise has been depicted largely in terms of a work force that labors with an almost cultish devotion to the common economic good. That was before a Japanese journalist named Satoshi Kamata went to work on a Toyota assembly line and kept a diary. The brutal conditions he describes in Japan in the Passing Lane (Pantheon; 211 pages; $14.95) seem like something from a Charles Dickens novel...
...week a group of grateful blue-collar workers in LaVergne, Tenn., a tiny factory town outside Nashville, welcomed the Japanese as saviors. Bridgestone Tire Co. of Japan bought LaVergne's truck-tire plant from Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. for $52 million. In a ceremony to mark the occasion, Satoshi Kishimoto, a Bridgestone executive who will be the plant's general manager, greeted 200 of his new employees with a cheery "Hi, you all." After he helped plant four tulip poplars, Tennessee's state tree, to commemorate a new "era of unity," the workers erupted into a rousing...