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...uneven results have critics wondering if Stringer should break up the company. "It's time Sony takes a hard look at where their non-electronics divisions fit in the larger picture," says Yasunori Tateishi, author of Sony Inside Story. "The company talks about synergy, but it's never been realized...
...streets of Tokyo are beginning to stink like New York did when I lived there in the 1980s." That's just about the worst insult you could deliver in Japan, but Yasunori Fukugawa, 47, a professor of urban planning, isn't the only one who sniffs trouble. In the shadows of Tokyo's futuristic skyscrapers, there are tent cities with hundreds of permanently homeless men. Mother Teresa's nuns have set up a soup kitchen in the second richest nation on Earth. The economy is shrinking, and the official unemployment rate has risen to 5%, highest in a generation...
...case in point is Nagata, an older working-class district that was swept by a conflagration. Nagata's numerous small factories housed nearly 70% of Japan's shoe industry, which may not rise again. Yasunori Noma, 72, picked methodically through piles of bricks and fire-blackened equipment in search of salvageable machined tubing. Noma's one-man operation had supplied makers of car components. Without insurance, he faces total loss. ``I was thinking about retiring, but now I'll have to work,'' he remarked while putting a piece of steel tubing in a bag. He did not have much faith...
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