Word: etsuko
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...Etsuko Shinobu has 33 years of experience as a proper Japanese housewife, shopping twice a day for fresh groceries and cooking traditional meals for her husband and two children. I have a refrigerator full of half-empty Coke bottles and shop twice a month, usually for more Coke. Shinobu-san has much to teach me in the art of Japanese homemaking, which is why I've come to her tidy home in northwest Tokyo, where she's begun offering cooking lessons for curious tourists...
...Etsuko Kashiwagi, 47, has 16 of them. She buys the dolls clothing and toys, and she and her husband take them on trips, posting on their website pictures of the dolls at the Eiffel Tower and Mount Fuji. "We're not crazy people," she insists. With their son in college, "we just find comfort in these dolls, as others might in their pets." Like-minded Primo owners take their "kids" on field trips and play dates; there's even a Primo hospital for adorable ailments like "hemorrhoids" (busted batteries). Yearning for the companionship of a robotic noodge? Too bad. Bandai...
...Politicians like Sakurai and Etsuko Kawada, a nonpartisan Diet member whose hemophiliac son contracted HIV from a tainted blood transfusion, are trying to encourage whistle-blowing as a line of defense against corporate and bureaucratic malfeasance. Sakurai's Democratic Party and four other opposition parties are drafting legislation they plan to introduce at a special Diet session scheduled for October. Their Public Interest Disclosure Law calls for the creation of a special body run by a five-member citizens' committee, which would have the power to investigate cases where government employees have been harassed or fired for stepping forward...
...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, imposed a controversial local tax on banks last year. Tanaka has found inspiration in all of those moves. "He's revolutionary," says Ikuo...
...hostages, the task before them was perhaps best expressed by Etsuko Taguchi, 59, who attended the ill-fated reception with her husband Yoshimoto, 57. Etsuko was released on Wednesday night, but Yoshimoto remained. On Thursday she attempted to hand a packet of stomach tablets to the Red Cross workers who were acting as go-betweens, with a note addressed to her husband in Roman alphabet. Added to it was the single Japanese word, ganbatte. It means "hang in there...