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...cinema legend? Why abandon the complexity of his recent films to remake an action franchise that he admits he "did not particularly" like? The answer is simple: because he was ordered to do so by a 76-year-old strip-club owner and former nude dancer named Chieko Saito, known to her family, friends and everyone else around her as Mama...
...With her violet, oversized glasses, baggy purple smock and toothy smile, Chieko Saito could be your grandmother. But she is a bit different from the average septuagenarian. When Saito was in her mid-30s, she decided to get into the nude-dancing business, recalling, "I liked dancing, and as for the nude part, I didn't care." At first, she danced in a friend's theater after the movies played. Then, in 1962, she bought her own strip club; less than a decade later, she owned more than 20 theaters across Japan. Along the way, Saito's money...
...with Katsu for more than 20 years, says, "He was a really caring, very generous man. If somebody asked him, he would lend money even if he didn't have it. So, in order to do that, he had to borrow money from someone else." Among his creditors was Chieko Saito. According to Tsunehisa, she first lent the actor money in the 1970s to save his debt-plagued film company, Katsu Productions. Despite her help, it eventually went broke, but Saito and Katsu remained close, even after his 1990 arrest in Hawaii for drug smuggling. At her office next...
...servicemen, especially among Okinawans. But what led you to conclude that if the defendant in this rape case were a Japanese man, he might never have been indicted? There are lots of factors that we may not know at this stage. It is an oversimplification to make that comment. CHIEKO INADA Kochi City, Japan
...Minister Keizo Obuchi's office wasn't informed for five hours. It wasn't until late afternoon--more than five hours after the disastrous blunder--that local authorities evacuated 160 residents to a community center. There, technicians in gray jump suits scanned bodies with wands to measure radioactive exposure. Chieko Kawano was told she shouldn't use her well water. "It's too late, you know," she replied. Later that evening loudspeakers in Tokaimura and eight nearby towns advised more than 300,000 people to stay inside, close their doors and seal their windows. "When we have more information...