Word: shiro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medium-size space for Japan; the lighting is theatrically pink and orange, the fixtures neo-1920s. A significant detail: the middle tier of the long, three-tier art deco glass bar is cracked deliberately. One might as well be in Milan. Lucchino's is the work of Shiro Kuramata, 52, a furniture and interior designer with a considerable reputation in Europe as well as Japan. His boutiques around the world for Issey Miyake are black chain-link nests. The feel Kuramata seems to be after is a kind of monastery for 21st century hipsters, a futuristic...
Taken together, these five qualities have furthered a national spirit of compromise and cooperation and a willingness to endure short-term setbacks for the long-term good of the nation, company or family as a whole. Says Shiro Miyamoto, an official of the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry: "Our system is born of the traditions and history of this country, a small nation with few resources. Without our way of doing things, there would be continual conflict and nothing would ever get done...
Plant Manager Shiro Yamada, 58, insists that there are few differences between workers in the U.S. and Japan. Says he: "Americans are as quality conscious as the Japanese. But the question has been how to motivate them." Yamada's way is to bathe his U.S. employees in personal attention. Workers with perfect attendance records are treated to dinner once a year at a posh restaurant downtown. When one employee complained that a refrigerator for storing lunches was too small, it was replaced a few days later with a larger one. Vice President Masayoshi Morimoto, known as Mike around...