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...riding on DoCoMo's global ambitions. "Our mobile-phone technology is ahead of the rest of the world?for now," says Hiroyuki Arai, a member of Japan's Diet and director of the parliament's telecom policymaking committee. "DoCoMo is our flag bearer. If the company takes its time getting into the global arena, we will lose our lead to American or other foreign companies. Without that kind of commitment from Japanese companies, our economy will never recover." That's drama a mere television show will be hard-pressed to match...
...internet society is borderless, and the ruling of the federal judges is not only proper but inevitable. MICHIO ARAI Yokohama Via E-mail...
...thousands of surviving victims of the gas attack were understandably bewildered. Said Kiyo Arai, a 22-year-old government employee who was stricken at the Kodenmacho station: "We're just innocent, ordinary people. It frightens me to think how vulnerable we are." It was not lost on authorities that the three poisoned train lines converge at Kasumigaseki, the hub for top government offices, including the national police. If the trains had continued on schedule, all three would have arrived at that station between 8:09 and 8:14, the apex of rush hour. Said Atsuyuki Sassa, former director general...
...broker deals. From now on, he told them, use less pricey hotels. He avoids wearing his legislator's lapel pin, though this has incurred the ire of the country's 10,000 pinmakers. "I never liked that sense of boasting, 'I'm a Diet man,' " says Tokyo housewife Seiko Arai. "The times were waiting for an up-to-date leader like this...
...Japanese children so good?" asks Hisayo Arai of the Japanese Association for Sex Education. "Partly because they're so busy with their college entrance examinations. Also, people are always keeping a watch on each other." While there are no religious taboos against premarital sex, Japanese culture has strongly urged youngsters, particularly girls, to wait until marriage. That tradition is slipping, however, because the average age for marriage among women has risen to 26, from...