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U.S.A. BOOSTER: Here’s what Takashi Kiuchi, president...

By Jerry Hicks, with Cristina Lee and Helene Elliott
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U.S.A. BOOSTER: Here’s what Takashi Kiuchi, president of Cypress-based Mitsubishi Electronics, uttered when Japan’s prime minister questioned the American work ethic: “Oh no, not again!” . . . Kiuchi, also president of the Japanese Business Assn. for Southern California, says he’s impressed with Americans’ work habits, despite what Japanese leaders say. . . . “We have failed to tell high-ranking Japanese officials what we’ve been experiencing here,” Kiuchi says. “The statements coming out of Tokyo are not based on facts.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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