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...Japan's chronic influence-peddling scandals, only some of the names seem to change. Last week another probe into the governing Liberal Democratic Party's pervasive cronyism ended in the arrest of Fumio Abe, one of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's most senior political allies and a party stalwart. He was seized on suspicion of having illegally pocketed more than $540,000 from the Kyowa Corp. for helping the steel-frame maker win lucrative contracts...
...artists' collective. The first major U.S. museum showing of new art from Japan in nearly two decades, the exhibition was organized by Thomas Sokolowski of New York University's Grey Art Gallery and Study Center and Kathy Halbreich, formerly of M.I.T.'s List Visual Arts Center, along with Fumio Nanjo of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Nagoya, Japan, and Shinji Kohmoto of the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto. It will run in San Francisco through Aug. 6, then travel to Akron, Boston, Seattle, Cincinnati, New York City and Houston through early...
...based on a series of "dramatic reversals." Perhaps, he suggested, it should be called Othello. Today Othello is a national pastime played by some 25 million Japanese-and a full-blown fad replete with towels, tie clasps, and key chains, all emblazoned with the distinctive Othello emblem. Spearheaded by Fumio Fujita, 27, a barber from outside Tokyo and the game's reigning champion, Othello has invaded England...
...morning of Aug. 6, 1945, Dr. Fumio Shigeto was waiting in line for a trolley to take him to Hiroshima's Red Cross Hospital. A nurse he knew waved to him, inviting him to join her near the front of the queue. Not wanting to push ahead of the people in front of him, Shigeto declined the offer. At that moment there was a blinding flash, followed by a deafening boom. Most of the people in the line were hurled to the ground, burned and bleeding. Shigeto, who was sheltered by the corner of a reinforced-concrete building, survived...
...women's liberation. Millett describes how her "sisters" alternately pushed her into the spotlight and chastised her for being a star. While making a feminist film documentary (Three Lives) in London and New York, and trying to maintain her quiet artist's life with her Japanese husband Fumio, she had to deal with the more bizarre aspects of what she calls the movement's "fascist era." Speaking at meetings all over the country, she was assaulted by the sisters: "We want to know why you signed your book." "Are you a lesbian? Say it. Are you?" When...