Word: yasuda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fuji in the early-morning hours of the 8th. They erected a cairn at the crest with 216 stones collected from mountains whose names include the word fuji, such as Kofuji or Rishirifuji. At 8:08 the last stone was placed by an eight-year-old boy, Akinori Yasuda. His birthday...
Aftershocks from October's stock crash rumbled through Wall Street last week as several shaken brokerage houses took steps to bolster their financial health. First, Paine Webber agreed to sell up to 25% of its stock to Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance of Japan for $300 million. The brokerage, which lost $16.5 million in October, welcomed the investment as a defense against takeovers...
Japanese bargain shoppers increasingly covet neglected American gambling casinos. Last April, Ginji Yasuda, a Korean-born Japanese, reopened the 1,100- room Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas after buying the ailing complex for $54 million and spending $30 million more to restore its glitzy decor. He plans to shuttle customers from Japan in a posh jet equipped with sleeping cabins. Says Yasuda: "You have a lot of dreams still available in this country that you don't have in Japan...
...paid $39.9 million for Sunflowers? Less than two weeks after an anonymous telephone bidder set an art-world record at Christie's London auction house by buying the faded Van Gogh masterpiece, the mysterious party has come forward: Tokyo-based Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance. Japan's second largest insurance company bought the work, which was completed in January 1889, to help celebrate its centenary next year...
...that account, the Tokyo firm spent about 1% of its fiscal 1985 revenues for the painting, known in Japanese as Himawari. Starting early next year, Yasuda hopes to send the work on a tour of several Japanese cities. Then the Van Gogh will join two Renoirs and a gaggle of Grandma Moses oils in a 450- piece art museum that occupies a floor in Yasuda's Tokyo headquarters...