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...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...
...their own. Ford is the most ambitious, aiming to capture 5% of the Japanese market by the end of the decade by importing 100,000 cars and manufacturing 100,000 more in Mazda's factories in Japan. (Ford is Mazda's main shareholder, with a 24.5% stake.) Konen Suzuki, who became president of Ford Japan after spending 29 years at Toyota, has launched Detroit's first TV campaign in Japan, in which local Ford owners proudly tell the camera, "This is my first Ford." Most of the ads show right-hand-drive models such as the Probe and the European...
...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...
...Suzuki said her joint English-East Asian Studies concentration has turned out well...