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...materials is confined mainly to aerospace and the military, Japanese manufacturers are concentrating almost exclusively on industrial and consumer applications. In addition, they have been avidly buying materials technology from abroad. In the past four years, some of Japan's leading producers, such as Kyocera and Tokuyama, have acquired four American firms, including AVX, a New York City manufacturer of specialized ceramics, and Materials Research, an Orangeburg, N.Y., company that makes high-purity metals...
Last year alone, Idemitsu (pronounced Ee-day-meets) imported more than 9,000,000 bbl. of Soviet oil, which Moscow sold to him at roughly 40% below world prices in order to finance purchases of Japanese machinery. Idemitsu cracks the oil at his Tokuyama refinery-the Orient's biggest -and then markets much of it from his chain of 1,500 modernistic gas stations. His competitors, bitter at Idemitsu's price cutting, charge that his operations will make Japan overly dependent on Russian crude. Idemitsu answers that less than 7% of Japan's oil now comes from...
Billowing Fires. In the two biggest and most destructive attacks so far launched, The Cigar last week sent more than 900 B-29s against Japan. A first force of more than 400 set huge, billowing fires in the naval fueling station and synthetic fuel factory at Tokuyama, the big oil refinery at Otaki, and the oil storage installations on Oshima (biggest in the home islands). They also flogged four airfields on Kyushu and Shikoku. Fighter opposition was timid, but there was heavy flak from Jap warships. Nevertheless, not one of the big bombers was lost...
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