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...Flying the slow, obese US-1As seems like junior-varsity stuff compared to the Top Gun U.S. marine aviators at Iwakuni - until I'm put in another flight simulator. Fortunately this time a professional is at the controls, Lt. JG Yoichiro Sagawa, who takes me through the procedure of landing a whale-sized seaplane on 10-ft.-high waves. Seaplanes manage to combine the worst aspects of airsickness and seasickness, and I fear that a simulated flight might make me lose my actual lunch. But Lt. Sagawa has a much surer hand that I do. "Once you get in that...
...share a 2,000-year history, and have traded regional dominance back and forth numerous times. With China gathering strength while Japan falters, many Japanese conservatives see little but confrontation ahead. "China is not talking about friendship or an equal footing with Japan, it clearly wants regional leadership," says Yoichiro Sato, an associate professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu. "Japanese leaders haven't resigned themselves to this, and they will put up a fight to maintain their influence in the region...
...Meanwhile, in April, the Mitsubishi Group dispatched a new CEO, Yoichiro Okazaki, from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. He quickly announced a restructuring plan that includes cutting 22% of Mitsubishi Motors' 49,000 employees, the closure of a factory in Japan, a revitalized car line with 44 new models to be introduced over the next three years, and a focus on boosting sales in China. Okazaki has also promised to overhaul the corporate culture by forming a business-ethics committee consisting of lawyers, academics and other outsiders to monitor senior management...
...swift, decisive action, not to mention an appropriate level of contrition, is the name of the game today. Firestone has seemed slow and unresponsive, a legacy, perhaps, of its insular parent company in Japan, where consumers have few rights, and product-liability lawsuits hardly exist. Parent Bridgestone's CEO Yoichiro Kaizaki, who gained a tough-guy reputation in shaping the company's American strategy, has been all but invisible. He may be practicing what the Japanese call fugenjikko - no words, only action - but silence is deafening here. "I don't know how you cannot be available for comment when...
...with Ford and huddling with NHTSA officials. Gary Crigger, Firestone's executive vice president, phoned his bosses in Tokyo to advise them of the decision. That seemed to catch the Japanese company flat-footed, although it publicly took credit for the order. Just two weeks ago, Bridgestone chief executive Yoichiro Kaizaki forecast rising profits for the rest of 2000. But last week Bridgestone said the recall at Firestone--which accounted for some 40% of Bridgestone's $20.4 billion in 1999 revenues--could cost the Japanese company as much as $600 million this year...