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...make amends, Takeshita responded last week with a Cabinet shuffle, ousting 15 of his 20 Ministers. But his new Justice Minister, Takashi Hasegawa, was forced to resign only three days later after it was disclosed that one of his political support groups had accepted legal-but-compromising cash contributions of $3,800 a month from the company behind the stock episode...
...astronomical $20,000 or more per sq. ft. -- on those rare occasions when anything comes up for sale. Says Shigeru Kobayashi, owner of Japan's multibillion-dollar Shuwa real estate empire: "Bond buyers are holding paper, but I have buildings and land. That's the future." Kobayashi's son Takashi, head of the family firm's U.S. subsidiary, controls 26 U.S. buildings worth some $2 billion. Among them: the ARCO Plaza in Los Angeles (bought for $620 million last September) and the ABC network headquarters in Manhattan ($175 million in October). Says the senior Kobayashi: "America is where greatness...
...both positions when his term as party president runs out at the end of October. When asked whether he plans to seek a third term, Nakasone hedges judiciously: "I have to abide by tosoku." The rules, however, often have been revised for political reasons. Noted L.D.P. Spokesman Takashi Sato: "Tosoku are something that could be changed easily. They are not like the constitution of the nation...
Beyond all talk of technique, though, is the larger issue of what Western music means to the Japanese. Takashi Funayama, a musicology professor at Tokyo University of Arts, compares the musical scene to a flower floating placidly on a pond. "It is big and very beautiful," he says, "but it has no roots...
Nissan explains that it is changing its name because of a corporate identity problem. The company has been borrowing on world money markets to finance its expansion, but President Takashi Ishihara discovered three months ago in London that many potential lenders were not aware that his firm made Datsuns...