European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. October 8, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13 f he japanese of German Tokyo West by Mark Heinrich associated press japanese editions of Playboy and finl House magazines Are on Sale at the  the restaurant Blue suited japanese businessmen and their wives Dine on Sukiyaki cooked on a Large Grill built into their table. The sizzle of the meat soybean curd and onions is counterpoint to the soil twang of Oriental music piped into the Nikko hotel. This is the heart of Dusseldorf a japanese District a closely knit foreign Community of 6,000 people in the midst of this Busy German City with a population of 580,000. Dusseldorf has the highest percentage of japanese residents of any City outside of Japan says Akira Ari Kawa general manager of the japanese chamber of Commerce and Industry Here. The lure business opportunities in the highly industrialized Ruhr Region. A self contained corporate Colony of Japan has sprouted in the midst of the German Beer locals gothic cathedrals and Mercedes taxi stands in this business capital in Northwestern West Germany. Vertical advertisements in japanese script decorate businesses along Immermann Strasse. At times Ger mans seem in the minority among the strollers along the Street which is two thirds of a mile Long. It s a Little bit of Japan away from Home says Shigeo Pishl an executive of Sumitomo Bank in Stockholm who is having breakfast at the Nikko. I be come Here More than 10 times in the past six years partly on business and partly to shop Tor food and books which i cannot get where i am based on a nearby Sloo Street is the japanese club where business executives on their lunch break eat in Homey surroundings while their wives play Bridge upstairs across the Rhine River 880 japanese children at tend their own overseas school. Tow japanese resident of Dusseldorf Are mostly connected to the Branch operations of some 300 Japa Nese multinationals like Mitsubishi and Nippon steel. With investments of More than $600 million in the area. In addition about 400.000 japanese tourists locked to West Germany in 1984, compared with 195,350 in 1975, according to Aklo Tanaka. Press attache at the japanese embassy in Bonn. This Spring Japan air lines started twice weekly. Direct service Between Tokyo and Dosse Dort. Ironically. West Germany and Japan Are not major Trade partners. West Germany exports just 1.4 percent of its goods to Japan and Only 4.2 percent of its imports Are japanese made japanese and germans do not mix much socially either unlike the millions of other foreign workers who locked to West Germany to join a Job Rich affluent society More than 90 percent of japanese households Are led by Well to do executive who will Only live Here three to five years. Hundred � up Nese executives come and go Vearty in a rotation system an arriving employee some times settling into the dwelling of a departed colleague As a result of the comparatively Short periods of residence and the Speed of rotation the japanese have no particular interest in becoming integrated into German  Dusseldorf University professor Erich Zielke said in a recent study. Contacts with the German population Are restated almost exclusively to the business sphere. The japanese ?