Word: chibas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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, 90% of Tokushima city voters opposed the dam. Nor is the trouble found only in outlying prefectures. Governor Akiko Domoto of Chiba, right on Tokyo's doorstep, announced in September 2001 that she was halting a project to fill in Sanbanze, Tokyo Bay's last major wetlands...
...walked six times. The pitchers were throwing balls so far out of the strike zone that Bass couldn't reach them. At one point, he held his bat upside down to show his disgust. "They apparently didn't want an American player to get the title," recalls Isao Chiba, a baseball analyst...
...role in the war, the Japanese have spent the past half-century repressing the memories and trying to make the world forget their aggression as well. "Many Japanese are deeply troubled that Disney would choose to make this movie," says Akimasa Miyake, a professor of modern Japanese history at Chiba University, who has not yet seen the film. "I'm not saying we were right or wrong. I'm saying we fear it could reinforce the image of us as low-down, dirty Japs and give fuel to Japanese conservatives who say America still sees us this...
Hiroaki, an outspoken eight-year-old, has gathered two other Yu-Gi-Oh freaks at his family's condo in Chiba to challenge me in electronic battle. By wiring our Game Boys together with a cable, we assess one another's "cards" and send our own characters off to war. Each of the 700-some characters has unique traits and powers, which are rated by points. Illusionist No-Face, for instance, is a magician who can instantly shift appearances. His 1,200 points of offensive strength are no match for the 1,400 of the Mecha-Falcon, but the magic...
...long-coddled boat. Koizumi and his feisty Foreign Minister, Makiko Tanaka (no relation to the Nagano Governor), are the most visible examples from within the ldp. But outsiders are making inroads too. In March, an independent woman defeated candidates representing Japan's two major parties to become Governor of Chiba prefecture. Last fall, in a special election to fill a seat in the Lower House of the Diet, Japan's parliament, outsider Etsuko Kawada defeated the major party candidates. Governors with an independent streak are starting to stand up to the national government. Nationalist novelist Shintaro Ishihara, Governor of Tokyo...