The History of J@pan*Inc.The term 'Japan Incorporated' was first used in a 1936 Fortune magazine article that said: "The industrial hierarchy of Japan is so compact that you can almost think of its works as the products of a single beautifully integrated and highly diversified corporation ... For a generation ... it has been Japan Incorporated against the world." In the mid 1960s, consultant and scholar James C. Abegglen used the term in a speech to, as he says, "convey the nature of Japanese corporations as having a common financial and personnel policy yet competing among themselves, like units in Alfred Sloan's General Motors." The term quickly spread, but much to Abegglen's dismay, reporters were giving it a different spin. "In their hands it veered from my attempt to convey a complex combination of cooperation and competition to a paranoid view of lockstep lock·step n. 1. A way of marching in which the marchers follow each other as closely as possible. 2. A standardized procedure that is closely, often mindlessly followed. Noun 1. Japan." In 1999, while trying to come up with a name for our new magazine, we hit upon J@pan Inc. "We were just trying to take an old term and make it new," says publisher Terrie Lloyd. The Wall Street Journal called our name "cheeky" in an April 27, 2000, article that started off with, "It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to say sayonara to Japan Inc. Not the country, but the cliche." Coming next month in J@pan*Inc The Year Ahead--We ask some of our favorite pundits to look into their crystal balls and tell us what they see for Japan in 2003. Will the new year bring relief from the seemingly unending economic stagnation Economic stagnation, often called simply stagnation is a prolonged period of slow economic growth (traditionally measured in terms of the GDP growth). By some definitions, "slow" means that it is significantly slower than a potential growth as estimated by experts in ? Where will the hot sectors be? And what should investors be wary of? Check out our predictions before you plan your Japan strategies for 2003. Ultimate Couch Potato couch potato An Americanism for a sedentary person, usually ♂, whose predominant non-work activity consists in lying on a couch, watching TV. See Television intoxication 'syndrome.'. Cf Vigorous exercise. Guide to Foreign TV--Are you in the mood to see reruns of TJ Hooker, to hear William Shatner <noinclude></noinclude> William Alan Shatner (born on March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor who gained fame for playing Captain James Tiberius Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise say, "Book the maggot maggot: see blowfly; fly; larva. , then wash your hands." Or perhaps A-Team is more your speed. Leave it to [[J@pan Inc]] to help you find ways to while away hours of your life in Japan on bad, mostly American TV. What's Ahead for Ogasawara--The last installment in our three-part series on public works has photographer and writer Michael Stanley explore the possible effects of an airport island on one of Japan's hidden treasures. Plus the usual fare: dog translators, new car tech, gadgets galore and translucent slices of blowfish A secret key cryptography method that uses a variable length key from 32 to 448 bits long. It uses the block cipher method, which breaks the text into 64-bit blocks before encrypting them. . |
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