Word: yuji
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concepts of how an economy should work. Americans and Europeans continually tell Tokyo that they want "fair" trade, which at its simplest means equal access to the market. The notion carries moral overtones that do not necessarily jibe with the Japanese view of the world. Kyoto University history professor Yuji Aida recently wrote that "the American predisposition to view things in simplistic black-and-white terms is antithetical to our mind-set. Whereas the U.S. was founded by a people convinced of a single, revealed truth, Japan's long history has taught us that in the realm of human behavior...
Neither is the plot in which writer Wesley Strick and director Joseph Ruben (himself something of a cult figure for The Stepfather two years ago) enmesh him. Eddie's main business may be straightforward enough: to free from Sing Sing a Korean American named Shu Kai Kim (Yuji Okumoto), who is doing hard, not to say life-threatening time for a murder he did not commit. But the path to belated justice is a sleazy maze, twisted as a paranoiac's logic. A key witness is a man who believes the telephone company assassinated John F. Kennedy...
Dodd and Baron become defense counsel for Shu Kai Kim (Yuji Okumoto), who may or may not have killed a man eight years ago in China town. Baron is sure that Kim is innocent because Kim's mother, who begs him to take the case, is so nice and sweet. "Even Attila the Hun had a mother," cautions Dodd, but soon enough he too is persuaded to take the case...
...struggle between IBM and its Japanese competitors is most intense in Japan, where IBM lost its No. 1 position to Fujitsu in 1979. IBM Japan, the company's wholly owned subsidiary, is fighting back. "They are becoming surprisingly aggressive," says Yuji Ogino, managing director of IDC Japan, a unit of International Data. IBM Japan, which employs 13,000 Japanese workers, has been slashing prices and launching new marketing drives in a bid to win back its overall lead. Admits a spokesman for a rival Japanese firm: "IBM is an enormous competitor...