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WHEN A NEW Japanese product comes onto the American market, its skillful design, its inexpensiveness, and its dubious durability are matched only by its clever advertising. Frank Gibney, the author of a forthcoming book, Japan, The Fragile Superpower, wrote recently that "the Japanese continue to maintain that a good Japanese can outsell Americans, outplan Frenchmen and Germans, and even 'handle' the Chinese." But the time for a philosophy of Mom, apple pie, and the transistor radio next door is gone. Japan is suffering from foreign economic pressures and its future is bleak, even on the everconsuming American market...
...island-nation has only half the population. Despite their weighty numerical achievements Japan's writers have not maintained a favorable balance of trade: while about 1000 foreign books were translated into Japanese in 1973, less than fifty Japanese books were translated into English. Commenting on this state of affairs, Gibney writes, "Unlike the outgoing cultural explorer of the Meiji Era, the modern Japanese is like a man living in a house with one-way windows, quite clear from within, but opaque to the outside viewer...
...recent injuries of B.U. and Harvard starters leave today's outcome in question. Terrier co-captain Dan Osmanski (142lbs.) dislocated his elbow in a match with MIT Thursday night and B.U. coach Dick Gibney has been hard pressed to find a solid replacement...
...will Japan's threatened partnership with the U.S. also survive? There is a communications gap between the two nations that is wide and getting progressively wider. Americans are more to blame for this than Japanese, according to Frank Gibney, Tokyo-based executive vice president of Encyclopaedia Britannica. In the October issue of Foreign Affairs, Gibney regrets that "behind the textiles and transistors, the American, so relatively sophisticated about the changing situations of Britons, Italians or Russians, sees in the Japanese the same 25-year-old image which American soldiers originally brought back from the occupation days: smiling, polite little people...
...GAEL GIBNEY...