Word: kobayashi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city of Nagoya dutifully passed up an anticipated $35 million windfall when it called off a grand celebration for its pennant-winning baseball team. Only the nation's flagmakers were cashing in. "I'm not supposed to feel happy, but our sales have zoomed more than tenfold," said Makoto Kobayashi, president of Hinomaruya, a Tokyo flag wholesaler...
...Manhattan real estate 10% to 15%, to roughly $500 per sq. ft. Those prices are still a bargain compared with costs in Tokyo, where office towers sell for an astronomical $20,000 or more per sq. ft. -- on those rare occasions when anything comes up for sale. Says Shigeru Kobayashi, owner of Japan's multibillion-dollar Shuwa real estate empire: "Bond buyers are holding paper, but I have buildings and land. That's the future." Kobayashi's son Takashi, head of the family firm's U.S. subsidiary, controls 26 U.S. buildings worth some $2 billion. Among them: the ARCO Plaza...
...Masataka Kobayashi was a curious mix of cultures. He was a Japanese chef who specialized in exquisite French dishes at some of America's finest restaurants. The son of a Tokyo food dealer, he went to Switzerland at age 16 to learn the art of French cuisine. Years later in New York, Kobayashi ("Masa" to his friends) transformed Le Plaisir into one of the city's most prestigious restaurants. In 1981 he became master chef at the Auberge du Soleil in California's Napa Valley. Two years later, he opened Masa's in San Francisco...
Last week Kobayashi, 45, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment after he had failed to show up for work at Masa's. He had suffered head injuries and was discovered in a pool of blood. The contents of his wallet were scattered on the floor, the front door was unbolted, and a rear window was ajar. Nevertheless, homicide investigators declined to say that the chef was a victim of an attempted burglary. Said Bill Cunin, maítre d' and general manager of Kobayashi's restaurant: "There was no one who was overtly anti-Masa...
...demonstration of one of its newest projects: a small personal computer which works as an electronic translation phone. A person speaking Japanese at one end of the line can be heard in English at the other end and vice versa. "I have been speaking English for 60 years now," Kobayashi said. "And still I have trouble." So he asked his younger engineers to work on the project which will be perfected in the next 20 years...