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...stoke Japan's economic fires after he lowered interest rates to zero. But Fukui has boldly set out a series of unorthodox monetary-easing programs designed to counteract the country's crippling six-year bout of deflation, flooding the nation with cash. "Fukui has been activist and interventionist," says Shuji Shirota, an economist at the Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein investment bank in Tokyo. Fukui's efforts are having an impact: consumer-price deflation slowed to 0.3% last year, compared with...
...Fast-food giants such as McDonald's procure beef from all over, but Yoshinoya imports almost 100% of its meat from cheap U.S. producers. When Japan banned imports of American beef in late December because of mad-cow disease, Yoshinoya chief executive Shuji Abe called it "the worst of worst-case scenarios" and then announced the unthinkable: Yoshinoya's 980 Japanese outlets would run out of beef by mid-February. Gyudon aficionados rushed the counters, and sales jumped 10% from the previous month. Now the company concedes it might buy domestic or Australian beef, even though its prices would rise...
...light bulb that flashed above Shuji Nakamura's head in 1993 to signal a brilliant new idea was, quite literally, blue. After four years of study, the senior researcher at tiny Nichia Chemical Industries, a company in southeastern Japan, had created a little azure beam that would revolutionize the global electronics industry. Nakamura's blue light-emitting diode was the missing link needed to produce cheap, energy-saving illumination in everything from traffic lights to big-screen TVs; it also promised greatly expanded storage capacity on digital video discs...
...Tokio. On the motion of Baron Kaneko L. '78, the following officers were re-elected: President, Baron Jutaro Komura L. '77; vice-presidents, J. McD. Gardiner '79, and Kwanrokuro Makayama; secretary and treasurer, Baron Chokichi Kikkawa '83; general committee, Baron Kentaro Kaneko L. '78, E. H. Vickers '93, and Shuji Isawa. His Excellency Mr. L. C. Griscom, the new minister from the United States to Japan, was the guest of the club on this occasion...