Word: suzuki
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Consumers, in the meantime, have gained few benefits from the strong yen. While the currency makes vacations in Hawaii and other U.S. destinations cheaper, Japan's creaky retailing system has been slow to pass along lower prices for imports to shoppers. Says Tokyo homemaker Momoko Suzuki: "As long as you live in Japan, there are not many merits to the strong yen. One exception is beer. We now buy Budweiser for 120 yen a can instead of Japanese beer...
...Like Suzuki, many Japanese thirst for attractively priced foreign goods. When the U.S. Commerce Department opened an office in Osaka to distribute mail-order catalogs from firms such as Neiman Marcus and Lands' End last year, more than 2,000 were snapped up the first weekend. But it will take thousands of scenes like that one to begin to deflate...
...author's method is to mix the slangy, teen-dream prose of a suburban hell raiser with rock-solid numbers. He shows us kids who attended high school for only three days and schools that have never sent a single student to college. He explains how to hotwire a Suzuki 750 motorbike and how to sell fake acid on the streets. Yet all these fancy maneuvers are underscored by some sobering statistics. The average Japanese watches nearly an hour more of television a day than an American. Approximately 14,000 adult videos are made every year in Japan...
Popular slugger Ichiro Suzuki, winner of the Pacific League batting crown, received an unusual honor: beginning this week, customers at Hyogo Bank can put their savings into an Ichiro Deposit Account that will pay 3.85% interest -- matching Suzuki's .385 average. Meanwhile, Sadaharu Oh, left, the retired Yomiuri Giants great who holds the world record for career home runs with 868 (surpassing Hank Aaron's 755), signed an estimated $10 million five-year contract to manage the fourth-place Fukuoka Daiei Hawks...
...success is signing up showrooms. Ford's Suzuki says he needs 700, an increase of 400, to reach his sales goal. Two years ago, he took control of a 284-outlet chain called Autorama, which he renamed Ford in May. The economy has helped him find more. Most of Japan's 17,423 dealer showrooms have exclusive ties to a sole Japanese carmaker. But the recession has put an unprecedented 41% of Japan's dealerships into the red. Some of the dealers believe adding foreign cars to their lineup can help bail them out. Says Atsushi Horigome, a Nissan dealer...