Word: sumitomo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shipowners are nervously wondering what to do about the 373 uncompleted but already surplus supertankers they have on order at yards in Sweden, Japan, West Germany and Britain. Large-scale cancellations have been forestalled so far by stiff penalty clauses. But Shozo Doi, vice president of Japan's Sumitomo Shipbuilding Co., gloomily predicts that "about 50% of the tankers on order will become subject to cancellation talks or negotiations to convert to other types...
...little over a year ago. Harvard's Jerome Alan Cohen, who was teaching at Doshisha University in Kyoto, suggested that Japan's largest trading house might spare that amount to endow a chair at Harvard Law School, and Mitsubishi agreed. Not to be outdone, the rival Sumitomo group gave $2,000,000 to Yale in June; four months later, Mitsui promised $1,000,000 to M.I.T. (from which a Mitsui founder graduated...
...corporate giving and get no tax exemption for it. So why the sudden generosity toward U.S. higher education? The motive seems to be one of enlightened self-interest: anything that improves Japan's image in the U.S. is not likely to hurt sales of Japanese goods. Says Sumitomo Executive Giichi Miyasaka: "The Americans get angry about the seemingly obtrusive attitude of the Japanese, but they have not made much effort to discover why the Japanese act like that." He hopes that expanded studies of Japan in the U.S. will help create more understanding and good will...
Reliable sources report that representatives of other universities (including Michigan and Stanford) have been visiting Japan in search of assistance. Shortly after Cohen secured $1 million from Mitsubishi industries for the Japanese law chair, Yale received $2 million from the Sumitomo conglomerate...
...Komatsu, Trio Electronics, Inc.; Tatsuya Komatsu, Simul International, Inc.; Masao Kunihiro, Kokusai Shoka College; Teiji Makikawa, Fujitsu Ltd.; Isao Makino, Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd.; Jiro Mayekawa, Teijin Ltd.; Yohei Mimura, Mitsubishi Corp.; Masafumi Misu, Hitachi, Ltd.; Rihei Nagano, Kubota, Ltd.; Yoshio Narita, Yamaichi Securities Co., Ltd.; Yoshiro Neo, Sumitomo Shoji Kaisha, Ltd.; Saburo Oyama, Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.; Kazuo Saitoh, Sharp Corp.; Keizo Saji, Suntory Ltd.; Yutaka Sugi, Nippon Kogaku K.K.; Tomejiro Tanaka, Marubeni Corp.; Kazuo Ueda, Minolta Camera, Ltd.; Hiroko Yokoyama, Simul International, Inc.; Noboru Yoshii, Sony Corp...