Word: takeuchi
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NORMAL, Illinois: Mitsubishi Motors removed two top officials from its U.S. auto division Tuesday because they have failed to implement anti-sexual harassment policies almost a year after two class-action suits were filed against the company. Mitsubishi sacked Tsuneo Ohinouye, U.S. manufacturing division chair, and Tohei Takeuchi, president of U.S. auto sales, for not ensuring that recommended changes took place at the company's Normal, Illinois plant. The factory is the target of two still-pending suits charging that hundreds of female assembly line workers were groped, fondled and subjected to other harassment. But TIME's Bill McWhirter notes...
...staggered out of the '80s with its self-confidence shaken. A furious debate is under way about the role of government in the economy; another looms over immigration. Multiculturalism is under attack, without a clear sense of what might replace it. Australia is suffering from "analysis paralysis," says Hirotaka Takeuchi, professor of international business and marketing at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University -- and perhaps from a deeper doubt. Says Robert Manne, editor of Australia's conservative political magazine Quadrant: "Australians live on the periphery, of Asia and their own country. They are a long way from home...