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...scene begins like any number of classic Hollywood crime dramas as maverick detective Shunsaku Aoshima swaggers along Tokyo's glittering waterfront, headed for action. With disheveled hair, necktie loosened rakishly and a cigarette dangling from his lips, he looks every bit the renegade cop. But when Aoshima reaches his destination, he hesitates and looks around sheepishly?there's no place for him to flick his cigarette! It's not nice to litter. What if someone sees him? Or complains? He sighs, pulls an ashtray from his coat, stabs out the butt, rolls his eyes and heads inside...
...fight for democracy" has only just begun, and the governors will not find the going easy. Japan's construction boondoggles come rigged with booby traps for those who try to dismantle them. Former Governor Yukio Aoshima of Tokyo, who campaigned in the mid-1990s against a ruinous bay project, was forced to retreat when he found that cancellation would incur hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties...
Hours after Asahara's arrest, a parcel bomb exploded at Tokyo City Hall, injuring two people. One of them, an aide to Tokyo Governor Yukio Aoshima, lost his left hand and right thumb in the blast. No one took responsibility and police have established no link to Aum Shinri Kyo. The package was addressed to Aoshima, who recently announced that he wascanceling the Aum cult's status as a religious organization...
...time when Japan is recovering froman epic earthquakeandnerve gas attacks by terrorists, voters have decided that comedians are best suited to run the government -- or at least two major cities. In elections Sunday, Tokyo voters elected as their governor Yukio Aoshima, who donned a kimono and wig to portray "Nasty Grandma" in a popular 1960s TV show. In Osaka, comic "Knock" Yokoyama won the honor. Though both are longtime members of Paliament's upper house, they were able to capitalize on voter anger with politics-as-usual to beat major party candidates...
Although the gift may be applied to Japanese, Chinese or Korean studies at the department's discretion, TDK favors Japanese research, Aoshima said...