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...Other governors are proving to be even more radical. They are the Japan that can say no. Governor Shiro Asano of Miyagi prefecture broke a taboo in December 2000 when he allowed public access to police records as a means to make government more transparent. Governor Masayasu Kitagawa of Mie prefecture unilaterally canceled a major nuclear power plant, a project as dear to Tokyo's planners as Nagano's dams. And in Tokushima, Governor Tadashi Ota won re-election in April 2002 by promising to stop construction of a giant sluice dam on the Yoshino River. In a recent referendum...
...similar descent takes hero Kakihara, (Japanese renaissance everyman Tadanobu Asano) to a blissful death in Ichi the Killer; in the modern Japanese cinema, death seems the only way out. This all-star gathering of evildoers unites ultraviolent comic artist Hideo Yamamoto, from whose manga the film was created, and screen violence helmer Miike Takahashi, who created last year's cult sensation Audition. Kakihara is a sado-masochistic punk gangster caught up in an underworld where dysfunction speaks louder than love. When his yakuza boss mysteriously disappears, Kakihara hunts for his abductor. In the process, he turns a mansion into...
...what sort of film would be acceptable? Perhaps the current release Merdeka, which paints Japanese World War II soldiers as heroes who save Indonesia from brutish white settlers. "Japanese today have lost their pride," says Katsuaki Asano, Merdeka's executive producer. "But were we really so wrong? The rest of Asia is grateful to us for helping them toward independence. I think Japanese moviegoers will see Pearl Harbor and feel disgusted at being portrayed once again as the bad guys...
...first sign that things would be different came Nov. 12 against Dartmouth when A.J. Mleczko '97-'99 and Claudia Asano '99, the team's former co-captains, came to Bright Hockey Center to unveil the national championship banner. Dartmouth led the entire game until junior Angie Francisco got the equalizer midway through the third period and it looked like the Crimson, who won every overtime game in 1998-99, had things under control. But Jen Wiehn scored the game-winner for Dartmouth to upset the Crimson in its home opener...
...Harvard, which had to make up for the losses of Mleczko, the 1999 national Player of the Year, and Asano by incorporating freshmen like winger Kalen Ingram and defenseman Jamie Hagerman into its regular rotation, improved as the season wore on as well. In December, the Crimson blew out Princeton, 7-1, by scoring four goals in 81 seconds. And in February, Harvard won the Beanpot for the second straight year by defeating Northeastern in overtime...