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...paper shares at a local tea shop. Think of it as an amorphous eBay for speculators, an ad hoc gray market that sprouted spontaneously from the pent-up desire among the Vietnamese to cash in on the country's economic boom. "It's the Wild West," says Noritaka Akamatsu, the World Bank's lead financial economist in Hanoi...
...fashion show. In August, Ohama, 34, threw Japan's largest fashion event to date, the Tokyo Girls Collection. The 12,600 attendees?and 15 million people watching the live cell-phone broadcast?could purchase items on their phones as soon as they appeared on the catwalk. Shin Akamatsu launched his Joias line at the festival and received more orders than the established labels did. "We struck gold right from the beginning," says the creative director, who saw $4.2 million in sales in five months. Other brands plan to present new lines at the next event...
...Hideki Akamatsu deploys his forces on a white board in the operations room. A master sergeant in the 45-man Japanese peacekeeping contingent on the Golan Heights, Akamatsu scribbles details of the vehicles he sent out of the base on this morning's mission. "We are well-trained and we are not afraid," he says. "We are ready to handle anything." What he's handling, however, is nothing more dangerous than the outsourced laundry of the Canadian peacekeepers who share Camp Zirouani with the Japanese. Outside, Akamatsu's commanding officer, Major Shinji Furusho stands watch for the laundry truck...
...Tokashiki islet, near Okinawa, there was no sign of humility in Major Yoshi-tsugu Akamatsu. The cocky 26-year-old self-consciously patted his polished boots -"Cavalry officer, you know"-then offered to fight it out, said it would be glorious to die in battle. In the end, he surrendered...
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