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Takeshita and Abe have already cobbled together a fragile union with another faction leader, Toshio Komoto. The trio controls 231 votes, but who the candidate will be, Takeshita or Abe, remains a question. To the delight of Miyazawa, who is fishing for allies, the Abe-Takeshita alliance is rickety. As Abe puts it, "There is only one chair for us to sit in. We can't solve the problem with a round of golf, which I would surely...
...September. Economists predict that Japan's gross national product will grow by just 2.3% for the fiscal year ending in March 1987, the lowest level since 1974, when GNP dropped by .4%. Even the promise of lifetime employment, a cornerstone of the country's social structure, is crumbling. Says Toshio Isago, an executive vice president at Nippon Kokan, a steel and shipbuilding conglomerate: "We have experienced hardships in the past, but nothing on this scale...
...employees, 60% of them women, work in the final assembly stage, where the tasks are more complicated. Canon's philosophy exhorts workers to avoid the "nine wastes," which include such sins as excess inventory or defects of any kind. The results are nearly picture perfect. Factory Boss Toshio Endo boasts that in a batch of 470,000 lens mounts produced at the plant over the past three months, only two were defective...
National museums are crippled by the bureaucratic conservatism of their staff when it comes to making decisions about any art since 1930. A man like Toshio Hara, 48, who runs a private museum in Tokyo with a steady policy of showing living Japanese artists in an intelligent and flexible context, is so exceptional as to be almost a cultural anomaly. And nobody gets tax deductions for giving art away. Consequently, the real museum action has moved to the corporate sphere, where overhead can be written off as promotional expenses. In America, corporations underwrite exhibitions. In Japan, they own museums...
...leading candidate to succeed Ohira is former Trade Minister Toshio Komoto, 69, a sharp, urbane industrialist who made a fortune in shipping and who has support from the business sector. Komoto, however, is an unknown quantity as party leader and is opposed by Tanaka's faction for having supported an investigation of the former Prime Minister's links to the Lockheed scandal (Tanaka resigned before being indicted for taking a $2 million bribe). Another candidate, Yasuhiro Nakasone, 62, has served as secretary general of the party and in various Cabinet posts, including that of Defense Minister. Some...