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...legal system is tilted against the inventor. Although Japanese patent law requires firms to compensate employees for ideas that pay off, it doesn't specify how much. "There's nothing to stop a company from giving a researcher only a few hundred dollars for a major invention," says Yoshikazu Takaishi, a computer and telecommunications attorney in Tokyo. Furthermore, while U.S. law operates under the "first-invention rule"--awarding the patent to whoever comes up with the idea, regardless of when that person files an application--Japan uses the "first-application rule." So if an inventor's firm delays submitting...
...Germans began to listen. The watershed moment came when the Yanks (with a little inside help) persuaded Schrempp in March to drop a long-standing bid to buy Japan's Nissan Motors. Schrempp wanted Nissan badly, to consolidate his empire, and he had been negotiating with an absolutely desperate Yoshikazu Hanawa, Nissan's chairman. But the Americans, who would have been saddled with turning Nissan around, had been uncomfortable with the plan from the start...
...Japan, putting your company on the acquisition block is so shameful that the expression for it--miuri--means "selling your body." So it must have been excruciating last month for Yoshikazu Hanawa, president of Nissan Motor Co., to publicly offer for sale a controlling interest in Japan's second largest automaker. What must have been even more humiliating is that when Nissan's suitors looked under the hood, they became even less interested in this clunker, with its $22 billion in debt and a lineup of flashless cars. The word around the car industry is that the $49 billion company...
...Yoshikazu Maeda. 54, a Tokyo bank executive, remembers that day when "the family was more closely knit, living quarters were more cramped, and there was consideration." much He more says mutual sadly: personal "The whole pace of life seems to have speeded up. Human relationships seem to be getting colder." Moreover, the problem of caring for the elderly is growing, if only because there are so many more of them. Improvements in diet and medical care have increased life expectancy for men from only 50 years in 1945 to 69 years today...
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