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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13CASHING IN ON BASHING
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- By SIDNEY URQUHART/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- How to earn big yen by exploiting the U.S.-Japan rivalry?
- A Japanese software manufacturer hopes to do it with Japan
- Bashing, a hot new computer game for all those obsessive nerds
- who lie awake worrying about the trade imbalance. While a TV
- newscaster intones actual news stories (e.g., the purchase of
- U.S. film studios by Sony and Matsushita), Japanese cars and
- computer chips are shown converging on a map of the U.S. Winged
- dollars at the top of the screen fly back toward Japan. Who
- wins? Flying hot dogs indicate an American victory; sushi
- signals a Japanese triumph. Then there are cowboys who shoot at
- samurai warriors. The brochure describes Japan Bashing with some
- understatement as "a game of reality and tension."
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