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...China, those sales tend to be concentrated in the compact-car segment, in which profit margins are low. In Japan, where Toyota intends to launch its Lexus brand in August, the company may have a hard time expanding market share, already at 44%. The dollar's slump against the yen, meanwhile, makes Japanese exports more expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Dude on the Road | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...yen to fix the unbroken often leads nowhere. Singin' in the Rain was not really improved by being turned into a splashy Broadway musical. Casablanca will not be improved if it is remade with John Travolta as Rick and Brooke Shields as Ilsa, with Prince singing As Time Goes By. Come to think of it, would baseball be improved if we speeded it up for today's busy audiences by ending the game after six innings? Do we really need a new national anthem, with a tune that can be sung and words that can be remembered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: New but Not Necessarily Improved | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...enough to strangle her abusive husband with a belt. You will think you're loving Out because it's a tense, atmospheric, sweaty, claustrophobic, cutting-up-bodies-in-the-bathroom crime thriller. But it's also a journey through a rarely glimpsed Japan, a lower-middle-class Japan of yen-hungry loan sharks and ragged tatami mats. Housewives don't come any more desperate than this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 6 Great Books You Might Have Missed | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

...Japan slips back into recession as the yen strengthens; exports to China don't help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Crystal Ball | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...hoped-for orderly decline of the dollar gives way to a sharp drop; the euro hits $1.50, the yen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Crystal Ball | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

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