Word: yasushi
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...markets like Britain, where the top 20 tracks tallied just over 100,000 downloads in a week, total. (The No. 1 on the traditional chart, Natasha Bedingfield's These Words, sold 41,000 copies.) "There's not much motivation to expand in a rush," says Sony Music Entertainment's Yasushi Ide, who cites ongoing worries about piracy, especially in Asia . "We'd rather grow the market gradually." Which may be the wisest way to avoid flying without wings - and crashing. - Reported by Yuki Oda/Tokyo and Bryan Walsh/Hong Kong Made To Be Broken The E.U. proposed relaxing its stability and growth...
...relentlessly confident 1980s, the tatami makers of Kagami sent a delegation to teach Chinese farmers how to raise igusa and weave tatami. "I had a slight feeling of dread," admits 33-year-old farmer Yasushi Furushima, who visited China a few years afterward. "But their quantity wasn't very good." China, of course, caught up fast: today, its exports account for more than two-thirds of the tatami market in Japan. In a last ditch measure to protect its farmers, Japan last year slapped import duties on Chinese tatami, along with leeks and shiitake mushrooms, other endangered cash crops...
...Yasushi Akashi, the former U.N. diplomat in charge of the disastrous Bosnia peacekeeping mission, spoke to the U.S.-Japan seminar at Harvard just a few years after refusing to stop a Bosnian Serb attack on a town called Srebrenica, resulting in the worst massacre in Europe since World...