Japan, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Japan comes up
The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back
- ▶ 3:10 Shane Parrish Five years earlier, Japan had taken the whole Korean peninsula 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:50 Shane Parrish After the war ended and Korea was liberated from Japan in August of 1945, Chung went back into the auto repair business. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:31 Shane Parrish Korea was free from Japan.
- ▶ 47:00 Shane Parrish He was aware at times that Korea had to compete with Japan and had to compete with every other industrializing nature.
- ▶ 1:01:51 Shane Parrish Honda had tried to save money by buying secondhand equipment, including Japanese trucks leftover from the Second World War.
- ▶ 1:11:57 Shane Parrish The Ministry of Construction had brought in one of Japan's most prestigious engineering firms, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:45 Shane Parrish Under the plan, Hyundai would build Ford-designed engines that would be mounted on chassis made in Australia with transmissions made in Japan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37:30 Shane Parrish He went to the Japanese. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:48 Shane Parrish Korea would probably lose the bid to Japan, which would be embarrassing, or Korea would somehow win the bid and then fail to deliver on the games, which would be much worse. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:14:02 Shane Parrish When Chung was born in nineteen-fifteen, Korea was a Japanese colony.
The Obsession That Built Nike | Phil Knight
- ▶ 12:57 Shane Parrish Japanese cameras had recently blown apart the German-dominated camera market. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:39 Shane Parrish He arrives in Japan in November of 1962. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:40 Shane Parrish Knight has to pay for shoes from Japan months before he can sell them in America.
- ▶ 26:13 Shane Parrish And with help from a Japanese trading company called Nishu,
- ▶ 28:42 Shane Parrish He built it to reduce his dependence on Japanese manufacturers, and it was a smart long-term move, but it was also a clear violation of his agreement with Nishu.
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 39:17 Michael Ovitz Because they helped us when we had nothing, and boy, there were a lot of people on the list because the entertainment business is not good to elderly people, it's not Japan, and it's not, ah, it doesn't have a good memory, and we did.
- ▶ 45:53 Michael Ovitz The other time was in Japan when I would go there once a month to deal with all the Japanese companies that I consulted for in media and in consumer businesses.