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...Japanese never consider cities solid, lasting existences as the Europeans or Americans do," says Architect Arata Isozaki, 38. "Ours have been destroyed so often by wars, fires and earthquakes that we believe that when it comes to cities, change is the sole permanent characteristic...
...detail have sown the turf, sprayed the elms and broadcast electronic squawks through a loudspeaker system to keep off the starlings and sparrows. The gardeners and more than 300 other permanent White House staff members-from Steve Martini, the executive barber since 1952, to White House Upholsterer Larry Arata-are likely to be staying on after...
...Washington as Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. Protests came thick and fast: since Japan's constitution requires civilians in Cabinet posts, ex-admirals do not qualify. In the U.S. view, Nomura would have been a better choice than the man who actually got the Defense Ministry post; Arata Sugihara, a bureaucrat-turned-politician who has egged on Hatoyama to more and more flirtation with the Communist powers. Washington was pleased, however, with the retention as Foreign Minister of one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, who signed Japan's surrender on the Missouri in 1945. Shigemitsu is a sober, careful...
Grandma said her name was Ethel-Mrs. Ethel Arata, 52, four times married, four times divorced, and never a grandmother...