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Nearly everyone else in Japan, including members of Mori's party, disagrees. An Asahi Shimbun poll shows his approval rating has plunged to a rock-bottom 9%. Comments Makoto Tanaka, a 49-year-old construction worker, "Mori needs to resign. Quit. Get out of there...
This is Beat Takeshi country, this TV Asahi soundstage that looks like one part Vegas lounge and one part Starship Enterprise. In front of a long desk where Beat holds court is a large half dome with flashing neon lights. Behind him in cylindrical pods are a contorted mannequin's torso, several fake strands of DNA and blinking white Christmas tree lights. Flanked by lesser television personalities and second-tier celebrities, Beat Takeshi presides on TV Tackle as the highest of Japanese pop culture royalty, an imperious entertainer whose every twitch and tick and grunt and sniffle elicit commentary...
...interrupted their morning commute to catch the games on two huge, open-air screens. While the Japanese don't feel as warmly toward Irabu as they do toward Hideo Nomo, whose quest to pitch in the majors was both earlier and purer, they are nonetheless proud. The headline in Asahi Shimbun--NEW YORK DRUNK ON IRABU'S FIRST VICTORY--was confirmed by the New York Post--BANZAI! Still, nobody expressed Irabu's debut better than his catcher. An hour after the game, Girardi sat at his locker and said, "To come to a new country, to make adjustments to your...
...something closer to the Napoleon of the multimedia business. First he swallowed Ziff-Davis, the American computer-magazine giant. Then he bought 37% of Yahoo, the U.S. Internet search-engine company. In June he and another corporate conqueror, News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, acquired a 21% interest in TV Asahi, which will be the entrepreneurial duo's base for a 150-station satellite network called Japan Sky Broadcast. And in September, Son's Tokyo-based Softbank paid $1.5 billion for 80% of California-based Kingston Technology, the world's largest maker of computer-memory products. Son's ultimate goal: nothing...
...they have. They represent the damage done not to an individual nervous system, but to a city's--perhaps a nation's--sense of security and self. As the Asahi Shimbun editorialized, "While it is hard to build a safe society, it is very easy to destroy it." One senior security official looked a reporter in the eye on Thursday and said, "Yes, I am very worried about another attack, a revenge attack...