Osamu Katano
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Osamu Katano
absorb allowing capacity crude easily efforts factors helped improve increases japanese negative oil past personnel prices products rises shift strategic sweeping
A strategic shift to value-added products and the past sweeping restructuring efforts have helped improve the profit-generating capacity at Japanese firms, allowing them to easily absorb such negative factors as rises in crude oil prices and increases in personnel cost.