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...economics of this process are impressive. Shipyard Manager Akira Takeuchi says materials and interest on loans add up to 80% of the yard's total production costs; labor costs account for 20%. In Western yards, labor costs run as high as 30% or more...
...tardiness. Even more rewarding, Tsu has never had a strike; in fact, all of Japanese industry has been relatively strike free. When there is a strike in Japan, it usually begins on Saturday afternoon and ends Monday morning. "The basis of our labor relations is mutual trust," says Takeuchi. Adds Masao Ando, head of the company union: "We know that the health of the workers depends on the health of the company." Tsu is not only healthy but also highly productive; it requires only around 25 man-hours to mold each ton of steel into ships, compared with Sweden...
...learned during the World War that Sarah Bernhardt, Cecile Sorel or Mistinguett had eloped to Germany with a French admirer of Kaiser Wilhelm. A topflight Japanese stage & screen star is Miss Yoshiki Okada, billed soon to appear in a leading Tokyo theatre. For a time she was the Viscountess Takeuchi, recently was said to have taken as her lover a Japanese Communist writer, Ryokichi Sugimoto. Last week this pair were reported out sleighing on the snow-covered island of Sakhalin, half Japanese, half Soviet. Suddenly the Japanese sleigh driver found himself being nudged in the ribs by Comrade Sugimoto with...
...given lean, bristle-lipped Tetsuzan ("Iron Mountain") Hori one great round eye, another squinted to half the normal size. Born in Kyoto 46 years ago, he was dedicated by his parents as an artist almost as soon as he could walk. He was apprenticed to the late great Seiho Takeuchi who made him study the lives and habits of wild fowl for 16 years before he might set brush to silk panel. For several hours a day he was made to squat in the marshes, by the duck ponds, silently meditating (a practice he still pursues). When Seiho Takeuchi decided...