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...while the danger has receded, the Russian military has clamped down on coverage of the conflict by American reporters and photographers, making it impossible to verify reports from the organization Human Rights Watch that ethnic Georgian villages just outside of Tskhinvali were being systematically burned and looted...
...change from the Toyota sedans and Sony stereos that have long defined Japan Inc. Sleek as those products may be, there is something culturally anonymous about them. It's as if these brands - along with a certain animated, mouthless cat that was introduced in 1974 - were scrubbed clean of ethnic markings and sold instead as prototypes of a postnational world. The cultural distancing is understandable. Japan's wartime defeat equated nationalism with suffering. The occupying Americans discouraged indigenous martial arts like karate and kendo from Japanese schools, just as an Emperor whose name was used to justify a terrible...
...dressed in a purple jacket and trying on ladies' wigs. When he finds one he likes, he lets out a strange yowl, twirling the fake blonde locks around his head in celebration. But it's not Hutz's clothes or wig that have people staring. Locals in this bustling, ethnic stew of a neighborhood have seen it all before. No, people are looking at this lanky man with the lavish handlebar mustache because they recognize him. As Hutz is happy to admit, he has at last become famous...
...group's Aug. 13 protest, five activists dressed in "Free Tibet" T shirts locked a row of bicycles to the entrance of the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park in the north of Beijing, which they used to keep police from dragging them away. Security guards grabbed their Tibetan flags but allowed them to remain on the spot for about 10 minutes as they chanted slogans and conducted interviews with foreign journalists. "The Chinese people are great, but shame on the Chinese government because they are lying to the people of China," said Pema Yoko, 25, a Tibetan-Japanese woman from...
...five days in advance. In Ritan, retirees walked along the tree-shaded walks and young couples played with children on the grass. But there were no demonstrators, and a park employee said there had been none since the protest zones were announced. Thus far the protest zones - the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park, where the Tibet protest was staged, is not one of the officially sanctioned locations - have yet to report any demonstrations...