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...venerating and praying for animals that die for the well-being of humans and sometimes erect statues and hold festivals to comfort the animals' souls. What might be considered macabre or inappropriate by Western standards is a way of life - and a perspective on nature - for the Japanese people. Shigeki Takaya, who is in charge of the whaling section of the Far Seas Fisheries division at the Fisheries Agency, says dolphins are a "resource, just like fish. Killing animals in any way is bloody, unfortunately, just like slaughtering cows and pigs...
...likes to have his boss looking over his shoulder. But Shigeki Ishizuka, head of Sony's digital-camera division, says he is unfazed whenever Shizuo Takashino--Sony's executive deputy president and one of the legendary team that created the Walkman--drops by. "I look forward to seeing him," Ishizuka says with a laugh, adding that he is always prepared for Takashino's frequent suggestion to "make it smaller...
...confront its cultural commitment to lifetime employment. All this downsizing, which has come on top of a severe three-year recession that ended last October, helped push Japan's traditionally low unemployment rate to 3% last year, the highest since 1987. "If the yen continues to appreciate," says Shigeki Tejima, a senior economist at the Export-Import Bank of Japan, "Japanese companies will be forced to stress international competitiveness more than maintaining jobs at home...
...should one suppose that these are dreaming connoisseurs who have just relinquished the ink block and the brush to dabble in the art of the namban, or round-eyed barbarian. Shigeki Kameyama, representing the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo, last week bought, among other things, Picasso's The Mirror at $26.4 million. The week before, he had also purchased De Kooning's Interchange at $20.68 million and a Brice Marden drawing at $500,000 at Sotheby's. Kameyama is known to other dealers as "Oddjob," after Goldfinger's hat-flinging chauffeur...
...nation that took its silkworms seriously, Japan was shocked when aggressive Shigeki Tashiro, head of Toyo Rayon Co., stepped up synthetic rayon production and started a Japanese "wash-and-wear" boom. Tashiro now believes that rayon is a has-been, is turning Asia's largest producer of synthetics into newer fibers. Toyo, which has already built several plants abroad, last week was surveying the site for a new Malaysian nylon textile plant at Kuala Lumpur. "If you don't always strive toward new goals," Tashiro says at 73, "you lose vitality. That is disastrous...