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...April 1, Japan's Product Safety of Electrical Appliances and Materials Law (PSE), designed to prevent electrical fires, will prohibit the resale of 259 types of electrical goods made before April 2001?including some of the most coveted video-game machines. "It's stupid," fumes retro gamer Hiroshi Yamano, while shopping at the Super Potato secondhand-game shop in Akihabara, Tokyo's nerd mecca. "Who do they think they are protecting...
Roll and Rock Inventor: Yamano Music Availability: Soon, about $160 To Learn More: www.yamano-music.com Traveling musicians, rejoice! With keys just an eighth of an inch thick, the 2-lb., 61-key Hand Roll Piano rolls up like a blanket and spreads out to about 3 ft. in length. Incorporating technology used in remote-control buttons and touch panels, the silicone-rubber keyboard, which has a built-in speaker, can be played for up to 15 hours on four AA batteries. But it's no lightweight. The Hand Roll comes with a set of 128 tones (from acoustic piano to bird...
...troops quit on him. His relentless energy keeps his managers focused, if exhausted. For the rest of the company, he uses intermittent whistle-stop tours of factories and dealerships to keep driving home his gospel of "change...or else." As Ghosn commented to dealer-manager Yamano recently through his ever-present interpreter (he is diligent about his weekly Japanese lessons, but Ghosn depends on interpreters), "Your results show a loss. We want to know first, why? And second, what are you going to do about...
...Yamano. His stammering attempt at an answer prompted only an irritated sigh. "This is your responsibility," snapped Ghosn. "Brainstorm. Discuss. You will be held accountable for this...
...organizations that feed all of a holder's card numbers into a computer and notify the proper companies as soon as a loss is reported, are dying out. Just a year ago, there were at least 40; today the FTC knows of only four. . . . When Japanese-born Mike Yamano of Los Angeles applied for a Diners Club card in 1958, he was rejected as a poor credit risk. Today, Yamano is taking his revenge on the credit card industry. Outraged by his Diners Club rejection and resentful that cash customers must pay the same prices as those...