Word: tokyo
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...changed. "I was a killer, a trained killer, and you can't keep that up," Eisenman, 57, says today. "Peter Eisenman is ultimately a friendlier person -- kinder, gentler. People are going to like my buildings more." In fact, he suddenly has lots of plum commissions -- an office building in Tokyo, a research complex at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, the Columbus convention center. Meanwhile, he will bask this week in the celebrations surrounding the dedication of his first major building, the $43 million Wexner Center for the Visual Arts at the Ohio State University in Columbus...
...tomatoes are cheaper," goes the Depression-era song, but you won't hear them singing it in Japan. A new survey comparing U.S. consumer prices with their Japanese counterparts confirms what travelers have been saying for years: Japan is a bargain hunter's nightmare. On average, consumer costs in Tokyo run 40% higher than those in New York City...
...Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the study examined the comparative prices of 122 products ranging from catsup to cameras. The results: 84 items were priced higher in Japan's capital than in the Big Apple. The more dramatic examples included European spark plugs ($7.60 in Tokyo, $1.70 in New York), U.S.-made electric shavers ($90.15 vs. $44.95) and Australian bed linen ($63.40 vs. $20). The Bush Administration is likely to cite the survey as evidence that Japanese trade barriers hinder competition that would lead to lower prices in that country...
Stalin kept only part of the bargain. On Aug. 8, three months after V-E day and only six days before Japan surrendered, the Soviets finally declared war on Tokyo. At almost no cost, Stalin not only got the Japanese islands but also stripped Manchuria of most of its heavy industrial equipment and shipped it back to the Soviet Union. In Eastern Europe not only did Soviet troops remain in large numbers, but Communists brutally subverted political parties and seized control of national police and military organizations to ring down the Iron Curtain. At the time, the war-weary West...
...acquisition comes amid a surge of Japanese investment fueled largely by Tokyo's $52 billion trade surplus with the U.S. In September Sony agreed to acquire Columbia Pictures Entertainment for $3.4 billion. And just three days after the Rockefeller Center sale, a consortium led by Japan's Mori Building Development paid $300 million for 85% of Houston's Four Oaks Place office center...