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...Commission, Fuji and Yawata will form the New Japan Steel Co., the world's second largest steel company after U.S. Steel Corp. Last year the two partners produced 25 million tons v. U.S. Steel's 32 million; they had sales of $2.5 billion. Under the presidency of Yoshihiro Inayama, now the chief of Yawata, the new company will employ 80,000 people in ten huge, highly integrated mills throughout Japan...
Some Japanese businesses say the rush of financially healthy companies toward new partners is the result of a "merger neurosis." Others think that it is not neurotic at all. "The time is ripe for mergers," argues Yawata President Yoshihiro Inayama, 64. "Intensification of international competition makes it imperative for Japanese firms to strengthen their internal structures...
Just Crazy. The dakkochan is the brainchild of Yoshihiro Suda, 27, planning chief for Japan's toymaking Tsukudaya Co. Last February Suda began experimenting with a U.S. made plastic-and-cardboard eye that appears to wink whenever the angle at which light hits it is changed. Suda placed the come-hither eye in a 12-in. doll made of black sheet plastic inflated with air. Besides its stubby, clinging arms, the dakkochan boasts ring-shaped ears, a red doughnut mouth and a plastic grass skirt. Girl dakkochans can be told from boy dakkochans by the fact that the girls...
...Baron Yoshihiro Takagi, chief surgeon and professor of surgery in the Tokyo Charity Hospital and Medical College...