Articles from Japan Inc. (May 1, 2004)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A hollow Hokkaido: a historic village is a microcosm for northern woes.	Craft, Lucille		1094
Beneath the beeches.	Stanley, Michael E.		365
Bizzare bazaar: USS and the used-car craze.	Craft, Lucille		2448
Bolster your bottom line through recruiting: an improving economy means intense recruitment pressure.	Dodd, John	Advertisement	1724
Canon boosts production in China: Canon shows off to investors it can become GE, or even better.			450
Competing in an ever-changing world.	Strazdins, Linda		279
Consensus-seeking, conflict-avoiding, corporate Japan is getting a jolt this year in the form of a mini-rebellion. Three high-profile cases involving researchers seeking remuneration from the companies they worked for were settled in favor of the plaintiffs--to the tune of billions of yen.	Kelts, Roland		254
E-Lets PC-M6100E.			121
Epson R-D1.			109
From little Acoms.			186
From Tokyo to the world: "go west, young man," say two Tokyo-based media brothers.	Kelts, Roland		1152
Inventor vengeance: Japan's top inventors go to court.	Lewis, Leo	Cover Story	2794
Matsushita pushes its DVD recorders: Panasonic to roll out 9 kinds of DVD recorders in 3 months.			298
Matsushita VDR-M70K.			109
No more kotatsu.			460
Olympus Camedia X-3.			119
Refueling Toyota.			183
Sony's seer.			181
Suntory's world-class malts: Kansai's very own whisky rebellion.	Al-Badri, Dominic		1080
Terrorism, the US correction and Japan: our analyst tackles the terrorism tax and tips on Japan.	Whitten, Darrel		1649
The Koreans are coming!			143
The storytellers: David McCaughan and McCann Pulse[TM] tell it like it is.	Kilburn, David		1535
Toshiba MEG201.			113
ZMP nuvo robots.			117