标题: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Sept 17, 2012 [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 9-19-2012 15:45 标题: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Sept 17, 2012 (1) Andy Sharp, Japan's Hottest New Export Market: Japan. http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... export-market-japan
(Summary beneath the title in print: Its multinationals are shipping goods home from foreign plants)
Note:
(a) The report mentions "the Shibaura Chuo auto showroom in Tokyo."
Shibaura Chuo Park 芝浦 中央 公園 (Shibaura 芝浦 is a district of Minami Ward 港区 in Tokyo.
(b) The Japanese surname Kakinuma is 柿沼.
(c) The report also talks about "Masato Sase, an auto industry analyst at Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting."
(i) Masato SASE 佐瀬 真人 http://www.tohmatsu.com/view/ja_ ... onsulting/index.htm
is the second photo in the right column.
(ii) Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting Co, Ltd (DTC) デロイト トーマツ コンサルティング株式会社
Deloitte
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deloitte
(Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited ( /dəˈlɔɪt/), commonly referred to as Deloitte, is one of the Big Four professional services firms along with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young, and KPMG; Deloitte is the largest professional services network in the world by revenue)
History: In 1845 William Welch Deloitte opened an office in London--the first person to be appointed an independent auditor of a public company; In 1898 George Touche established an office in London (both Deloitte and Touche were Britons); In 1968 Nobuzo TOHMATSU 等松 農夫蔵 [1896-1980] formed Tohmatsu Awoki & Co 等松・青木監査法人 [partnered with 青木 大吉 Daikichi A(w)OKI.
* nohu 農夫; 農未 【のうふ】 (n): "peasant <農夫は春になると種をまく。 Farmers sow seeds in the spring>
Jim Breen's online Japanese dictionary
(d) The report states, "Shiseido next month will introduce its Za makeup, made in Taiwan and Vietnam, to Japan, the first time it will import an entire product line made overseas."
(i) Shiseido 資生堂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiseido
(one of the oldest cosmetics company in the world (Yardley, founded in 1770, predates it by 102 years) and the fourth largest cosmetics company in the world; Arinobu FUKUHARA 福原 有信 established the Shiseido Pharmacy in 1872; In September 2012, Shiseido will launch "Za" in Japan)
(ii) There is no Chinese or Japanese for "za." http://www.za-cosmetics.com/
(e) The report alludes to "Kubota, Japan's largest tractor manufacturer."
(i) Kubota Corporation 株式会社クボタ (based in Osaka)
(ii) In 1890 Gonshiro KUBOTA 久保田 権四郎 (くぼた ごんしろう) forged 大出鋳造所.
Tokyo-based Works Institute, a research arm of staffing agency Recruit.
* gonge 権化 【ごんげ】 (n,v): "incarnation; avatar"
(f) The report cites "Yuqing XING of the Asian Development Bank Institute."
Note:
(a) Summary beneath the title in print:
(i) China's slowdown is hitting the mining sector hard
(ii) "A Wile E Coyote moment" could be in store for the Aussie dollar
(b) What is a "Wile E Coyote moment"?
(i) The report explains:
"For now, he [Brian Redican, a senior economist in Sydney at Macquarie Group, an investment bank] says, investors expect iron-ore prices to recover along with China. If that prediction is wrong, there will be what he calls a 'Wile E Coyote moment' for the Australian dollar: The coyote gets tricked by the Road Runner into running straight off a cliff. 'Initially at least, he doesn’t fall,' Redican says. 'But then he looks down and realizes that there is nothing supporting him.'”
(ii) Wile E Coyote and Road Runneren.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote_and_Road_Runner
(3) Nick Leiber, A Rainmaker for the Small Fry. (title in print) http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... ade-in-usa-in-china
(Summary beneath the title in print: An ex-US ambassador [to Singapore Frank Lavin] helps companies break into China)