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Introduction: As one of the largest U.S. drug firms, Weaver Pharmaceutical heavily engaged in international business. The company entered the Japanese market as early as the 1930s, when it chose Yamazaki Pharmaceutical, a major producer of drugs and chemicals in Japan, as its distributor. The joint venture between Weaver and Yamazaki, "Weaver-Yamazaki Pharmaceutical", was established in 1954, marking a milestone in Weaver's successful business expansion in Japan. The operation not only produced, with its own resources and R&D activities, broad lines of products to fill the general demands of the Japanese market, but also successfully marketed new products in the United States and other countries. Leonard Prescott was appointed Vice President and General Manager of Weaver-Yamazaki Pharmaceutical of Japan to replace the former general manager, who had been in Japan for six years. His executive assistant was John Higgins, who had joined Weaver-Yamazaki a year before Prescott. Higgins had...

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