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...Three now relies on a Japanese company to provide some of its small cars. Starting next year, GM plans to build some 250,000 small cars a year with Toyota in a plant in Fremont, Calif. By 1986 the company hopes to import 300,000 cars built by Suzuki and Isuzu. Predicts GM Chairman Roger Smith: "Joint ventures are going to be a way of life." Chrysler, which last week filed an antitrust suit seeking to prevent the Toyota-GM hookup, imports four Mitsubishi models and will probably replace its aging Omni and Horizon models with a car built overseas...
...small-car strategy is the most diversified of any U.S. automaker's. He has launched the company's Saturn Project to develop a 45-m.p.g. model by 1987. In addition, GM has created alliances with four Japanese automakers. It has made large investments in both Isuzu and Suzuki, and expects to import 300,000 of their cars. Its agreement with Toyota to produce 250,000 cars annually in Fremont, Calif., was approved last month by the Federal Trade Commission. And GM has also quietly arranged for Nissan, Toyota's archrival, to build cars for its Australian subsidiary...
...Sanae Suzuki graduated in the class of '82 from Tokyo University's faculty of law and, diploma in hand, passed the senior civil service test. One government ministry indicated that a job was waiting. But Suzuki, 23, like many other career-minded Japanese women, decided that most Japanese employers would expect her to serve tea, even to male colleagues from the same class, and perform clerical duties that offered little chance of advancement. So she joined the Tokyo office of the Boston Consulting Group, an American company that specializes in international marketing and other services. Few Japanese corporations...
...rarefied world of music instruction, Shinichi Suzuki long ago introduced such standbys of Japanese industrial thought as volume, logic and enthusiasm. Suzuki began developing his learning-through-imitation method of teaching violin more than three decades ago. Today he is 84, and his world-famous technique is 300,000 students old (two-thirds of them in the U.S.). Suzuki begins by having his students, many of them just three or four years old, watch those in the classes ahead of them. After a couple of months, they are given empty, miniature violin cases and chopsticks for bows...
...imposing the tariff, Reagan was following the recommendation of the U.S. International Trade Commission. In January, the I.T.C. agreed with Harley that the company needed temporary relief from the big wheels of Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki and Honda. Since 1978, H-D has lost more than a third of the big-bike market (engines of more than 700-cc displacement) to the Japanese. According to Harley-Davidson Chairman Vaughn L. Beals, 1982 sales of about $200 million were down 20% from the preceding year. One reason for the Japanese success is pricing: Harley's top-of-the-line touring model...