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...American-imposed constitution to buy modern weaponry, Japan has been able to concentrate investment on automated industry. The destruction of its factories by wartime bombing left it free to rebuild with the latest technology. To do that quickly, the new industrialists bought patents and licenses from everywhere. Says Shigeo Nagano, chairman of Nippon Steel, which today produces more tonnage than any other company in the world: "So long as we had to start from nothing, we wanted the most modern plant. We selected the cream of the world's technology. We learned from America, Germany. Austria and the Soviet Union...
...fans who thronged daily into the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium, the results were a severe blow. Japan won only one title-in the women's team competition-for its worst showing since 1952. To compound the ignominy, the Japanese saw their 1969 world singles champ, Shigeo Ito, upset in the men's final by Sweden's Stellan Bengtsson, 18. Said a crestfallen spokesman for the Japanese delegation: "We simply have to have a sweeping reappraisal of our techniques...
...with two runs in the eighth inning. The visiting Giants then went on to trounce the Kansas City Royals 7-4 and the Minnesota Twins 6-3. As always, the hustling Japanese traded on the pinpoint precision of their pitchers and the big bats of Oh and Third Baseman Shigeo Nagashima. Known as "Mr. Giant," Nagashima, 35, who has led the league in hitting and runs batted in five times, earns $130,000 a year. Giants Owner Toru Shoriki, noting that his team drew 2,500,000 fans last year (Oriole attendance, 1,057,000), said simply: "We make...
...took the lead in advocating modernization is now the acknowledged leader of the Japanese steel industry: Shigeo Nagano, 64, Fuji's president. The son of a Buddhist priest and himself a Judo expert with a reputation for forcefulness, Nagano pressed for renovation and expansion of the industry despite official reluctance and occasional opposition from financial circles, who could not see so clearly as he the role steel would play in reconstruction. Following his lead, the industry inaugurated a $358 million, five-year capital expansion program in 1951. Japan's accelerated recovery, and the shipbuilding and railroad booms...
Need to Keep Up. Saturation is the word the world's steelmen use to describe the situation. "As civilization advances in any nation," says President Shigeo Nagano of Japan's Fugi Iron & Steel, "consumption of steel rises, but at a certain point it reaches the saturation point and levels off. Advanced industrialized nations currently have reached or are fast reaching that saturation point." International steelmakers figure the saturation point at about 1,100 Ibs. a year per person;* when a nation reaches that level of steel consumption, such substitutes as plastic and aluminum begin to cut severely into...