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...lame-duck government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who hands over power on Nov. 6 to his successor, Noboru Takeshita. Following Monday's precipitous slump, the Japanese Finance Ministry quietly pressured major trust funds and insurance companies to begin a stock-buying blitz. Most complied, says Economist Kinji Yajima, because "management knows well enough that to ignore such requests is to ask for lots of trouble...
Though the Commerce Department has investigated the costs and prices of the Japanese companies and concluded that they are dumping, it is not at all certain that they need to resort to such tactics to outsell American competitors. Says Tokyo Economist Kinji Yajima: "No matter what the U.S. Government might do, American semiconductor makers just simply cannot lick their Japanese rivals." Japanese manufacturing costs are known to be very low, particularly for the mass-produced memory chips that make up about 18% of the market, since the Japanese have invested billions of dollars in building modern plants to turn them...
...incidents of illegal Japanese business practices are having a strong impact in Tokyo. Said Kinji Yajima, professor emeritus of the prestigious Tokyo Institute of Technology: "Our mercantile image has once again been tarnished. We Japanese are now being regarded as a scheming bunch of villains around the U.S. It will take years for us to improve our image to what it had been before Hitachi, Mitsubishi and Mitsui were caught." The land where saving face is all important is now worried about losing face...
...again, Harvard's biggest deficiency is in the shorter runs and hurdles. Freshman Mariquita "Skeets" Patterson--who set Harvard's indoor hurdles and Pentathalon record last winter--will confine her various talents to the Heptathalon today, leaving Sigrid "Ziggy" Gabler to run in the 400-meter hurdles, and Lenny Yajima to contend in the long jump. There will be no one representing the Crimson in the 100-meter hurdles...
...breakfast in bed of bagels, cream cheese, coffee and a newspaper, LIZ WARD, women's ice hockey--A 1000-goal season; MAUREEN GILDEA, women's swim team co-captain--A new knee; MAUREEN FINN, women's field hockey co-captain--$10,000 for lacrosse and a good stick; LENNY YAJIMA, women's track--Nothing--she has everything she wants...