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...more classical japanese," says 22-year-old Ayako Fujitani, "than I am an all-American girl." Which must say something about the relative strength of national genes: Fujitani's paternal half is karate-klunker-star Steven Seagal, her mother is Miyako Fujitani, a famous aikido instructor, and their offspring has switched from using brawn to brains to get ahead. After six ditsy roles in movies, Fujitani wrote her first novel, Touhimu, in 1999. It was turned into the aloof and alienated film Ritual, which received an award for Best Artistic Contribution at Tokyo's 13th International Film Festival?a double...
...that outrageous in the U.S., Ishii has a temperament that is better suited to being the center of attention than those of players like Nomo and Seattle Mariners star Ichiro Suzuki. Ishii is far more comfortable with the media, perhaps because he is married to a Japanese TV personality, Ayako Kisa, with whom he has a five-month-old son, Kanta...
...holed up in budget meetings. With a video camera, autograph boards and calligraphy pens, they prowl the halls for four-and-a-half hours, finally catching up to Tanaka eating lunch in the employee cafeteria. What excites them about Tanaka? "It's his intelligence, his perseverance, his warmth," says Ayako Yamada, a housewife who lives a two-hour train ride away. "He is so passionate...
Justice Without Bitterness. The court ruling will return to the petitioners-without interest-some $4,000,000 in savings that the Government confiscated from U.S. branches of Japanese banks. Mrs. Ayako Honda, 68, of Redwood City, Calif., who spent three years in a Utah camp while one of her sons was serving in the U.S. Army, estimates that she may receive about $500. She says she feels no bitterness, is elated that finally "justice was done." Said Los Angeles Attorney A. L. Wirin, who represented some of the plaintiffs: "This decision brings to an end the last injustice visited...
...hardware merchant near Tokyo, is coming by invitation. Brookings (pop. 2,632), the nearest town to the Oregon forests that Fujita bombed, has never forgotten its wartime distinction. The town's Junior Chamber of Commerce is raising $3,000 to bring Fujita, along with his wife Ayako and English-speaking son Yasuyoshi. 25. The Fujitas will participate in a crab feast, an outdoor church service, the annual Azalea Festival parade. They may even fly over the azalea-speckled forests around Mount Emily, where Fujita's bombs fell...