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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yasuyuki Idotsuji was a Nomura salesman in 1973, when stocks on the Tokyo exchange took a tumble, leaving one of his clients with more than $10,000 in losses. Recalls Idotsuji: "I raced over to his house, but he wasn't there. So I kept going back until finally I fell asleep on his doorstep. At 2 in the morning my client returned, and I apologized. We have been friends ever since." Now that Idotsuji is manager of the Nomura branch in the Kichijoji district of Tokyo, he expects the same dedication from his salesmen. Like fierce drill sergeants, Nomura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Nomura: Working Like a Dog | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

Patients with serious symptoms are sent by the local doctor to see specialists in a hospital; they, too, are often not as rigorously trained and supervised as their American counterparts. "There is no licensing system or qualification test as a specialist," says Dr. Yasuyuki Hosoda, a leading heart surgeon who practices at Tokyo's Toranomon Hospital. Hosoda spent six years as a resident and researcher at the Cleveland Clinic and worked for ten years at the Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prognosis: Steady Improvement | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

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