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...Toyoda Toshiaki's Blue Spring also takes on adolescence through an all-boys school. Though dressed up as celluloid eye candy, the film is seethingly bitter at its core. The setting is a young-yakuza breeding ground where everybody wants to join someone else's gang or start his own. Boys kill each other at school. Authority is a distant rumor. The boys' only respite comes through playing a heart-stopping variant on the game of chicken: they stand at ledges 30 meters above the concrete and see how many times they can clap their hands before grabbing...
...accident that our list is almost entirely American. It does include Sony's Akio Morita, and it arguably could include a handful of other leaders from abroad, notably Japan's Soichiro Honda and Eiji Toyoda (Toyota), Italy's Giovanni Agnelli (Fiat) and Australia's Rupert Murdoch (now a U.S. citizen). But if the 20th century was, as Luce also said, the American Century, it was largely because our system, espousing freedom of markets and freedom of the individual, rewarding talent instead of class and pedigree, bred a group of leaders whose single-minded fixation on getting rich--and creating great...
...been for the good-hearted support of the U.S." Older Japanese in particular feel the need to repay that debt, especially now that the U.S. is in the midst of its longest recession since the 1930s. "We are sorry to see America in this trouble," says Tatsuro Toyoda, 63, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Corp. "We must help America because we really would like to see America strong once again...
...contrast, the heads of Japan's Big Three -- Shoichiro Toyoda of Toyota, Nobuhiko Kawamoto of Honda and Yutaka Kume of Nissan -- earned a total of $1.8 million, counting bonuses. Moreover, while the Japanese execs are presiding over thriving enterprises, the U.S. auto industry is coming off one of its worst years ever. Sales of American-made cars plunged 12.6%, to 8.7 million, in 1991; more than 40,000 autoworkers lost their jobs, and GM announced plans to eliminate 74,000 jobs by 1995; and the Big Three rolled up financial losses that analysts predict could exceed $6 billion...
...Toyota, Shoichiro Toyoda is provided with membership in several elite golf clubs. Kume of Nissan receives a company-rented house in a posh Tokyo neighborhood. Nissan also provides its 47 board members with free use of a vacation home in Hakone, a mountain and lake resort area south of Tokyo. Liberal expense accounts routinely cover pricey meals and bar bills that can add up to $1,000 a head for a night...