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May/June 1988 Issue

May/June 1988 Issue

Changing Lifestyles

TOPICS
Industry Shifts Further away from Exports
Cover Story : Changing Lifestyles
Lifestyle and the Consumer Society
by Kusaka Kimindo
Cover Story : Changing Lifestyles
Putting on the Style
by Shiota Tatsushi
Cover Story : Changing Lifestyles
Working Harder at Relaxing
by Omachi Motohide
Cover Story : Changing Lifestyles
Finding a Niche for a Novelty
by Maeda Shozo
Cover Story : Changing Lifestyles
Changes in Tastes and Flavors
by Nakahara Hideaki
ANTENNA
Workers Who Go Home to a Hotel Room
by Yamamoto Hiroyuki
SKETCHBOOK
A Storehouse Scene
by Oba Hiroshi
TRENDS
Fugitive Foreign Laborers on the Long Road to Riches
by Takesue Takahiro
TRENDS
Changing Picture in Video Kingdom
by Maeno Kazuhisa
JAPAN EYE
Land of Slumber
by Sonia Katchian
FOREIGN BUSINESS
Arthur Andersen: Forte in Information Systems
by Shibata Yoko
Viewpoint S
US International Economic Strategy: Looking toward the 1990s
by John N. Yochelson
by Iwasaki Toshio
Conductor of Commerce –Interview with Ishikawa Rokuro, President of Nissho  
PROFILE
ANALYSIS
Challenges of the Graying Society -Japan-US Health Care Comparison-
by Koinuma Nobuo
DATAGRAPH
Tracing Japan's Business Recovery
REFLECTIONS
Busy Going Nowhere
by Iwaki Hiroyuki
CONTENDERS
Roland: Sound Venture into Music Machines
by Nakamura Hideichiro
OUTSIDE TOKYO
Kunisaki: Technology amid the Temples
by Anne G. Pepper
BOOKSHELF
The Roads to Sata –A 200-Mile Walk Through Japan by Alan Booth
by William A. Lise
BOOKSHELF
Samurai and Silk –A Japanese and American Heritage by Haru Matsukata Reischauer
by Barbara C. Adachi
BULLETIN BOARD
Japan Joining Moves to Protect Ozone Layer
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Charts May/June 1988

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