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...Tokyo last Thursday, as the Asian Development Bank held its inaugural meeting. More than 500 delegates from 32 countries and nine international agen cies, including financial experts, ranking world bankers and top-level govern ment officials such as U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, unanimously elected Japan's Takeshi Watanabe, 60, president for a five-year term. At the same time, they also agreed to admit Indonesia and Switzerland as the bank's 31st and 32nd members...
When he approached Bell & Howell one day in 1951 to suggest that the Chicago firm should serve as his U.S. distributor, President Takeshi Mitarai of Tokyo's Canon Camera Co., Inc. got a disappointing hearing. Bell & Howell President Charles H. Percy freely admitted that the 35-mm. Canon which Mitarai had brought with him was a fine piece of craftsmanship. But although Japanese products had already begun to earn a better reputation abroad. Bell & Howell wasn't interested. Explained Percy bluntly: "'Made in Japan' means cheap, shoddy goods here...
...Boost from the Troops. Slight, scholarly Takeshi Mitarai, 61, thinks Japan might have overcome its reputation for shoddy manufacturing long before it did. "The capability was always there in Japan," he says. "But it was channeled into things like Zero fighters and dreadnoughts." Canon got started in 1933 when Mitarai, then a practicing M.D., enlisted some technician friends to develop better optical equipment for hospitals. While they were about it, they turned out Japan's first 35-mm. camera, a near copy of the German Leica. Recalls Mitarai: "My associates had a really difficult time producing this prototype without...
...Canon Camera's Takeshi Mitarai, 60, who, by stressing quality and workmanship, emerged as one of the world's leading camera manufacturers and exporters...
...police headquarters, the assassin calmly identified himself as Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, told detectives his only regret was failing to kill Communist Sanzo Nosaka and Japan Teachers' Union Chairman Takeshi Kobayashi as well as Asanuma. He had planned to bag all three. The sword, he explained, was a wakizashi, the kind worn by samurai until 1876, when the government forbade people to carry them. He had found it only the week before in the bottom of his father's closet...