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Canon was started in 1937 by Chairman Takeshi Mitarai, a physician, who took the company name from Kannon, the Buddhist figure that represents mercy. The firm made the first advanced 35-mm camera produced in Japan in the 1930s and stayed with these relatively slow-selling models for decades. But after moving into calculators and copiers in the 1960s, Canon applied its electronics know-how to cameras and devised the breakthrough AE-1. The company followed up in 1979 with the Sure Shot, a highly popular $100 pocket camera that automatically focuses itself by using an infra-red beam...
...unsentimentahzed portrait of Japan's mountain people in the 1880s. The same festival also showcased Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, a P.O.W. melodrama set in Java in 1942 starring David Bowie and two popular Japanese performers, Singer-Songwriter Ryuichi Sakamoto and the TV comic Takeshi. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is scheduled to open this fall in New York as the spearhead of an Oshima retrospective...
...campaign to ban cigarette smoking in public places received a big boost last January when Epidemiologist Takeshi Hirayama of Japan's National Cancer Center published the results of a 14-year study of 265,000 Japanese. He found that nonsmoking wives of heavy smokers had a higher risk of developing lung cancer than nonsmoking women married to men who did not smoke...
...most complex aspects of Japanese business is the relationship between managers and the government. Tokyo ministries that set national economic priorities can exert substantial pressure on companies, but their influence is much less than is believed outside Japan. Says Takeshi Sakurada, chairman of the Toho Rayon manufacturing company and honorary president of the Japan Federation of Employers: "The amount of government interference or the role of government in private business is very small as compared with the U.S. or the European Community." Adds one Western economist in Tokyo: "There is no Japan Inc.-if there ever...
Last month, the Japanese government contributed $1 million toward the center. Takeshi Yasuka, Japan's ambassador to the United States, personally presented the gift to President...