Word: shinzo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Shinzo Hamai, 62, four-term mayor of Hiroshima (1947-1952, 1959-1967) and the biggest single force in the city's rebirth; of a heart attack; in Hiroshima. Himself a survivor of the atomic holocaust, Hamai laid out a new metropolis with broad avenues and plazas, was so successful in convincing industry (shipbuilding, auto manufacturing) to return that today Hiroshima is one of Japan's most prosperous cities, with a population of 543,000, almost twice the wartime number...
Angling & Go. After working out such problems and receiving expected governmental approval, the three Mitsubishi firms plan to merge in May. The man most likely to head the new company is Shinzo Fujii, 70, the president of Shin Mitsubishi, the biggest and financially strongest of the three firms. An even-tempered but forceful businessman, Fujii took over the reins of his company once more after a hand-picked successor died, would probably stay on just long enough to get the new company going strong. Unlike the old zaibatsu, whose power extended deeply into politics and military policy, today...