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Tanaka and Osano first met in Tokyo during the immediate postwar period when both were scrambling for the top. Their durable friendship is largely based on their strikingly similar personalities. Both are blunt, decisive men of peasant stock in a society that has raised silken circumspection to an ethic. For all his swashbuckling, Osano's greatest assets are a prodigious capacity for work and an instinct for the well-timed business deal. For example, he was early in spotting his countrymen's wanderlust, and even before Japanese tourists began rushing to Hawaii, he invested in hotels there...
Chou, despite his silken sex appeal, has married only once. Small, soft-spoken Teng Yingchao, whom Chou met in Tientsin in 1919 during a street demonstration, is often at Chou's side when he hosts foreign dignitaries...
...with stalactites, stalagmites and a massive bed that stands 80 feet from the door. For Fanatics there is also a miniature petrified forest in which to frolic. The Round Room, designed without a single corner, features a circular bed with translucent chiffon panels above. At the pull of a silken rope, the panels part, revealing a skylight view of the stars. The Polynesian Room offers a ten-foot hammock, the Arabian Room a floor-level bed surrounded by mirrors and 1,001 pillows, and the Psychedelic Room, decorated in screaming reds and oranges, is equipped for light shows...
...company's attitude toward the worker is also important in keeping labor peace. It is often said by economists that a Japanese company is not in business so much to make a profit as to fulfill its obligation to employees. Like most Japanese firms, Toyota practices a silken but binding paternalism designed to make the company's 38,500 employees feel that they are part of a large family rather than corporate cogs. Veteran workers are encouraged to spend hours of their own time helping newcomers improve their skills, and bosses generally attend subordinates' weddings...
...Griffith wears his patented oblique stare of incipient insanity as the feckless, fatuous Louis. Sutherland is both immensely vital and painstakingly subtle. His lumbering lout is a Gallic version of Steinbeck's Lennie. Yet with a tiny moue he transforms the sow's-ear peasant into a silken, purse-lipped aristocrat. Alternately bumbling and mincing, Sutherland irreverently manages to impale both egalite and elegance...