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...Prime Minister Taro Aso. The 68-year-old premier, who is a self-confessed manga addict, has called for Japan to pursue what he calls "comic-book diplomacy." (Last year, when he was serving as Japan's Foreign Minister, Aso counted among his accomplishments inaugurating an International Manga Award that honors foreign artists.) Aso's own internationalism is rooted in personal experience, a relative rarity among Japanese politicians. In addition to studying at Stanford University and the London School of Economics, he spent time in Sierra Leone and Brazil, where he ran family mining businesses. A vocal advocate of Japan...
Oliver Stone Academy Award--winning director whose most recent work is the biopic...
...book on the Civil War—one of the five finalists in the non-fiction section of the National Book Awards—was bested for the prize by a book about the family of Thomas Jefferson’s housekeeper Sally Hemings at the award ceremony in New York last night...
...professor at Rutgers and New York Law School, Gordon-Reid is the first black woman to win the award for non-fiction...
Aside from Gordon-Reid, the winners of the night were Judy Blundell, who claimed the prize for young people’s literature; Peter Matthieson, whose book “Shadow Country” won in the fiction category, and Mark Doty, who won the award for poetry...