We should all know by now that the Japanese businessman is addicted to golf almost as much as he is to beating foreigners to that contract – leisure – they pronounce it rayjah over there – is taken so seriously that the Washington Post quotes a retired businessman saying When I think of rayjah, it means getting up before the sun and sitting in traffic for two hours to get to the golf course to make a 6.30am tee-off time: bearing that in mind, it is timely that IBM Corp should be sponsoring the First Annual Junior Achievement Golf Tournament to raise friends and funds for the expansion of Junior Achievement programmes in the six Bay Area Counties around San Francisco – once the Japanese have taken over the world, about the only thing they’ll need from the rest of us is peoplefodder to beat at golf.
