Word: suzukis
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...know that compared to a few years ago, we now buy Japanese hi-fi equipment instead of American, Japanese cameras instead of German, Japanese television sets instead of American, Japanese watches instead of Swiss. The four largest motorcycle manufacturers in the United States are Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, and Suzuki. Twenty years ago the Japanese produced less than 100,000 automobiles, last year 100 times as many--10,000,000--about the same as the U.S. produced. Since it does not involve consumer goods, fewer Americans know that Japan produces about as much steel as the United States, only in more...
Academic Retreats. The financial problems were first uncovered by then Assistant Dean Bob Suzuki while he was reviewing the school's books. After he sent memos to the university administration about the possible misuse of funds, somebody smashed three windows of his home and stuck a note on the garage door warning, "Lay off, or next time it's you." Suzuki called the police, who have not yet caught the culprit...
Last month, a young Japanese adventurer named Norio Suzuki went to Lubang to hunt down Onoda. When the two men finally met in a remote jungle clearing, the lieutenant laid down his condition: "Only in case my commanding officer rescinds my order in person will I surrender." Last weekend Suzuki returned to Lubang accompanied by former army Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, 63, a Kyushu bookseller who had been Onoda's last military superior. Dressed in a shapeless cap and a tattered uniform and clutching his old regulation infantry rifle, Onoda stood at attention as Taniguchi read out an Imperial Army...
...down and then shooting up off the top of the screen, is electric. The river, boldly placed to unify the two separate screens, swirls with energy. Indeed, later artists bestowed his name on this way of painting water. "Korin waves" recur in a long screen of gray cranes by Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858). A copy of a Korin (now in the Freer Gallery), Kiitsu's frieze of birds, with their dipping beaks and stilted legs, is a distillation of variety in unity. Sakai Hoitsu's (1761-1828) screen of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets is virtually a compendium...
...Hiroshima A-Bomb Hospital, seventy to eighty people still die each year from leukemia--a disease directly linked to radiation effects. Resentment against the hospital which is run by the Japanese government was expressed by Masaho Suzuki, a twenty-two year-old resident of Hiroshima whose father was burned in the bombing...