Word: akagi
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...would centralize power in the Prime Minister's office, bureaucrats have recovered some of the influence they'd lost under Koizumi's reform-minded administration. Abe's own ministers have fallen into scandal after scandal. By July 8 even one of Abe's substitute ministers-Agriculture Minister Norihiko Akagi, named to replace the late Matsuoka-was mired in a fresh campaign-funding scandal. "He's just not any good at picking his team," says Jun Iio, a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). "When he faces a crisis, his easygoing style isn't effective...
...squadron leader on the Akagi. Admiral Yamamoto stood on a wooden step in front of the officers on Nov. 17. He told us: "I know you have trained for a few months and are confident of your skills. But America is very strong. So tighten your belts. Devote yourselves to this fight...
...dimly lit desk and squint as I pull tiny gun turrets from the sprues of a plastic-parts tree. My room smells of Testor's model glue. I will eventually get so delirious from inhaling the fumes and struggling to assemble this 1/700-scale model of the aircraft carrier Akagi that I will pass out at my desk...
...ships? And then, just a few decades later, distribute these wondrous plastic replicas? It has stayed with me ever since as my internal, almost subconscious response to the notion that Japan is a copycat nation: no other country, before or since, ever made aircraft carriers that looked like the Akagi or Shokaku or Hiryu. At the same time, only Japan ever made toys as wondrously byzantine as the model kits of those ships...