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...slump, Yun has continued to invest in new processes and research. The company refined its semiconductor and liquid-crystal-display operations so effectively that traditional competition from Tokyo was upended. "Samsung is more cost effective, and its manufacturing technology is better than at companies like Sharp and Hitachi," says Shiro Mikoshiba, a Nomura Securities analyst in Tokyo. "The Japanese stopped competing two years...
...issue of the terrible treatment of the Aborigines is one not only for Australians but also for the rest of us. There are examples in the behavior of the Asian people in wartime and toward the Ainu, Hokkaido's distinctive people who have been supplanted by the Japanese. SHIRO MATSUMOTO Chiba, Japan...
Anna Golin, who owns Wunderhaus, a giant warehouse of modern furnishings in Unterfohring, says people are investing heavily in home decoration as well: a Rolf Sachs chair goes for $5,900, a chest of drawers by Shiro Kuramata for $8,900. The furniture fills high-priced housing. A no-frills single-family house in choice areas of Baden-Wurttemberg or Bavaria averages about $300,000, a one-bedroom apartment rarely less than $160,000. The most reasonably priced region is along the East-West border, but even there the market is tight...
...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...
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...