Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Apr 29, 2013

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(1) Jason Clenfield, What's Good for Toyota Isn't Always Good for Japan.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... than-a-devalued-yen
("a stock market and real estate crash [following the 1989 crest] erased $15 trillion in wealth. * * * The collapse of Japan’s bubble wiped out the equivalent of three years of GDP, compared with one year in the 1929 US crash, notes [Richard] Koo[, chief economist at Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo]. 'Many who lived through the Great Depression never borrowed again,' he says")

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Yen depreciation helps big exporters but won't do much for the little guy
(b) Masao NAMIKI, chairman of Namiki Kanagata Ltd, in Tokyo's Ota industrial district
(i) 並木　正夫     / 株式会社 並木 金型
* Namiki  並木
* name 並; 並み 【なみ】: (n): "set of (eg teeth)"
* kanakata 金型 【かながた】 (n): "metal pattern; die; (metal) mold"
* kane/kana 金 【かね(P); かな(金)(ok)】 (n): "(1) (See お金) money; (2) metal"
* kata 型 【かた】 (n): (1) "model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc)"
(ii) Ōta, Tokyo  東京都 大田区
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cta,_Tokyo

(c) Fast Retailing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Retailing
(founded in 1963 by Tadashi YANAI 柳井 正; in 1984 "opened a new casual-wear store named Unique Clothing Warehouse in Hiroshima City; this was the forebear of Uniqlo")
(d) Shin-Etsu Chemical  信越化学 工業株式会社
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin-Etsu_Chemical
(“Shin-Etsu” in the company's name derives from Shin'etsu Region 信越地方, where the company established the first chemical plant in 1926)
(i) 信越地方
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BF%A1%E8%B6%8A%E5%9C%B0%E6%96%B9
(ii) Chihiro KANAGAWA  (社長) 金川 千尋 (a man)
* Chihiro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihiro
* hiro 尋 【ひろ】 (n): "fathom"
* chihiro 千尋 【ちひろ】 (n): "(1) great depth; bottomless; (2) great height  <一歩誤るとせんじんの谷だ。 One step further, and you will fall into an abyss>"
* fathom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathom
(two yards (6 feet); Originally based on the distance between a man's outstretched arms)
* fathom (n; from Old English fæthm outstretched arms, length of the outstretched arms; First Known Use  before 12th century)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fathom

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(2) Tian Ying and Alexandra Ho, In Some Chinese Cities the Tags Cost More Than the Car.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... t-more-than-the-car

excerpt in the window of print: Traffic congestion and pollution concerns are pushing the largest cities to restrict car registrations

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: The high cost of registering a vehicle favors affluent buyers of foreign models
(b) CHI Yifeng, head of the Beijing Asian Games Village Automobile Exchange
北京北辰亚运村汽车交易市场中心 总经理 迟 亦枫
(c) China Minzu Securities  中国 民族 证券


(3) Chris Jasper, An Ill-Timed Bet on the World's Largest Ship.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... -e-may-be-too-large
(Maersk Line's Triple-E class)

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(4) Amanda J Crawford and Karen Gullo, In New Mexico, a Form Dictates Function.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... mexico-could-happen
("Since Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage in 2004, every state except New Mexico has sorted out where it stands on granting spousal rights to same-sex couples. Thirty-eight states prohibit gay marriage; nine allow it. New Mexico is the only remaining state without a position on either gay marriage or civil unions" but wording of its marriage license application stands in the way)

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: A lawsuit prods the state to take a stand on same-sex unions
(b) The print but not the online version shows a copy of New Mexico’s marriage license applications, highlighting "male applicant" and "female applicant."

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(5) Charlie Rose Talks to Philip Mudd; Following the Boston bombings, the former deputy director of counterterrorism at the CIA breaks down the Tsarnaev brothers' motive.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... alks-to-philip-mudd

banner quotation underneath the title, but above the subtitle: 'I don’t necessarily think these are real jihadi terrorists. I think they’re angry kids.'


(6) Brad Stone, Here Comes Amazon's Kindle TV Set-Top Box
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... ndle-tv-set-top-box
(this fall; streaming video over the Internet to television)

Note: summary underneath the title in print: The online giant moves further into video

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(7) Olga Kharif, From Space, Now You Can See People Scream.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... pace-with-urthecast
(broadcasting high-resolution, near-live global images and video; freely available to consumers and third-party app developers)  

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Aboard the International Space Station, UrtheCast will be watching.
(b) UrtheCast is short for "You are the cast."

cast (n): "the set of actors in a dramatic production"
(c) The window of print shows:  3.76 BILLION  Estimated size of commercial satellite-imaging market by 2018


(8) Alexis Xydia and Whitney Kisling, US Companies Regain the Top Five Spots.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... ies-are-back-on-top

My comment: "[A] weakening China"?  It is true for the Shanghai stock market, but China's economy as a whole. That is my interpretation.