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...buyers may soon be paying a price for the bitter trade tensions between the U.S. and Japan. Several Japanese auto manufacturers, including Honda and Nissan, said last week they were contemplating price hikes on some models sold in the U.S. Toyota has already raised the price of its redesigned 1992 Camry sedan by nearly...
...Sony. Toyota. Honda. Mitsubishi. Nikon. Ricoh. Toshiba. There seems no escaping Japan in the U.S. these days. But just try to escape America in Japan, especially if you are young and yearn to be hip in Tokyo. America is an essential element of growing up urban in Japan...
...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...
...America campaign may be simple. The larger context is not. During the week that anti-Japanese protests took place in Louisville, Toyota announced yet another $90 million plant expansion there, which would add 200 more jobs to the local economy. Total Japanese employment in the U.S. has risen to 600,000, nearly 400,000 in the manufacturing sector, while Japanese investors continue to hold $180 billion of the nation's mountain of debt paper, 30 times as much as the Germans...
...their high standards of quality. James Kielt is a retired envelope and paper salesman in Freeport, N.Y., who served in the Navy during World War II. Says he, remembering the Mitsubishi fighters and bombers of the Pacific war: "I probably would have trouble buying a Mitsubishi." He drives a Toyota Tercel. Says his friend John Wood, a retired retail chain executive: "The Japanese are probably more industrious than we. And I think we are getting lazy in this country...