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ENGAGED. Prince Tomohito, 34, Oxford-educated son of Japan's Prince Mikasa, the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito; and Nobuko Aso, 25, a Tokyo English teacher whose grandfather, Shigeru Yoshida, was his country's first elected postwar Prime Minister. The Council of Imperial Household Affairs had to approve the marriage (probably in October) of the shy commoner and the affable prince, whose first proposal seven years ago was turned down because of her age. Her description of her fiancé: "warm-hearted...
...conditioning, including swordsmanship. But "nearly everything that could be taught at a regular college is out," says Hisakado. The dominant lecture themes attempt to define the essential qualities of human beings and the disciplines that help a society endure. Most students in the entering class share one sentiment. Kenji Yoshida, 24, a graduate of Osaka University Law School, observes that many question "the existing Japanese value system, and entered this school in search of an answer...
...Yoshida, now 65, insists that he still follows that formula, and it has made his company, YKK Manufacturing, the world's largest zipper maker. This year it will produce 500,200 miles of zippers, more than enough to stretch to the moon and back. Sales have grown from a pathetic $170 in 1934, YKK's first year, to $475 million...
...they are expected to hit $625 million, on which Yoshida looks for a "pure profit" of 9%, or $56 million. More of those profits will belong to employees than to Yoshida; the company's 13,000 workers in Japan have acquired almost two-thirds of the stock through a generous profit-sharing plan...
...Yoshida now plans to extend the same largesse to foreign employees - because, he explains, "all along we have tried to inculcate a sense of being a part of the YKK family." Profit sharing will soon be offered to 80 YKK workers in Canada, then to 400 in the U.S. and 3,500 in 27 other countries round the world...