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...comfortable or set up for a large immigrant workforce. "The Japanese legal system doesn't assume that foreigners will settle down to live and work with the Japanese," says Hirano of Kyushu University. "That's been an obstacle to bringing foreign workers into the medical and care-service fields." Shiro Kawahara, president of the 60,000-strong Nihon Careservice Craft Union, says his industry isn't ready to manage foreign manpower, especially when problems like low pay and overly demanding labor need to be solved first. "We've been working to improve the work conditions," says Kawahara. "This can drag...
...however, that won't be so easy, since success seems to have tamed Nissan's tolerance for design risks. Nissan's latest models aren't as distinctive as the first round Ghosn launched. For the latter, Ghosn gave Shiro Nakamura, the director of design, a mandate to be different, to craft a bold look for the brand. Nakamura delivered with models like the 350Z and Murano. In this latest cycle, designers weren't given as much free rein, according to James Sanfilippo, an analyst with Automotive Marketing Consultants. "They were worried about screwing up a good thing," he says...
...DIED. SHIRO AZUMA, 93, Japanese World War II veteran who was one of the few ex-soldiers to admit to having participated in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, in which as many as 300,000 Chinese were killed; in Kyoto. In his diary, published in 1987 as My Nanking Platoon, Azuma graphically described rapes and beheadings. "We were taught that we were a superior race," he told CNN in 1998. "But the Chinese were not. So we held nothing but contempt for them...
...SHIRO TSUDA Mobile Master It is rare for an executive in Japan to switch companies. But Tsuda's defection from NTT DoCoMo--the company he was rumored to be in line to run until he got passed over for the top spot in May--is particularly dramatic. In December, Tsuda, 58, takes over the Japanese subsidiary of Vodafone, the world's largest cell-phone carrier. But in Japan the British company's market share is third--and dwindling. Tsuda's challenge: to step up the shift to third-generation phone service and boost the bottom line. --With reporting...
...founding employee of Japan's no. 1 mobile-phone carrier, Shiro Tsuda has reaped the rewards--and suffered the consequences--of being a pioneer. And it has paid off: when NTT DoCoMo's president, Keiji Tachikawa, 64, steps down, Tsuda is expected to succeed him. "Tsuda has a good sense of balance between technology and marketing, and he has the confidence of his co-workers," says Shinji Moriyuki, senior telecom analyst at Daiwa Research Institute in Tokyo...