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Article: Developing a yen to do the right thing. (Japanese companies in North Carolina)(includes related article)
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- Business North Carolina
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- November 1, 1991
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Japanese companies discover that doing business in North Carolina is often a matter of give and take.
Konica executive Masanori Ishiko thought he'd heard it all when it came to local groups asking for corporate handouts.
After all, he had spent 25 years with Japanese companies, working in places as varied as New Zealand, New Jersey, London and Indonesia. Unlike many less-traveled Japanese businessmen, Ishiko had embraced the American concept of good corporate citizenship. Since his arrival in Greensboro earlier this year, Ishiko, a vice president at Konica Manufacturing U.S.A., had agreed to company donations to local schools, the United Way, a campaign ...