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February 24-25, 2010
Posted Feb 25, 2010 -- webcomm
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The bow is an age-old tradition in Japan for companies caught selling bad products or deceiving the public. The deeper the bow, the thinking goes, the deeper the remorse. And once the bowing is over, the Japanese government often allows Japanese corporations to tackle their problems in private. But that's changing. "It is clearly pressure in the United States that has forced Toyota to handle this problem differently than they would have wanted to," said Jeff Kingston of Temple University, Japan Campus, on "CBS Evening News" and "Up to the Minute."