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...Record Straight ? Our story "What's Right With Japan?" [Aug. 11] featured photographs of the Honey-Pop chair, which we incorrectly stated were courtesy of Tokujin Yoshioka Design. Pictures of the chair were provided courtesy of Nacas? & Partners...
...complicate efforts to ease the three-year banking crisis and rescue eight housing lenders that are wobbling beneath $84 billion of bad real estate loans. Just last week a government report urged the use of taxpayer funds to bail out the banking system. That outraged critics like Hatsuko Yoshioka, the head of Japan's powerful Housewives' Association, an umbrella organization of 391 women's civic groups. Yoshioka wants major banks like Daiwa to commit some of their vast resources to shoring up ailing banks and housing lenders. Says she: "Daiwa Bank, although it lost $1.1 billion, is still going...
This rigorous training in adaptation is now beginning to free their creativity. Michitaka Yoshioka, 59, who also studied at Cranbrook, teaches product design at Tsukuba University and lectures in India and China, says much the same about schoolwork. He also says: "Industrial design is no longer a matter of form giving, sketching pretty forms on paper. The definition of design incorporates thinking and inventing. We must, for instance, think about ways to recycle appliances. Consumers should be able to dismantle big things like refrigerators into small, disposable parts, rather than leave them in the alley...
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