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...sixth week as managing director of the Hanshin Tigers baseball team, Shingo Furuya, 56, ended a phone call to his wife Akiko with the word sayonara (goodbye) instead of his customary oyasumi (have a good night's sleep). Sensing something wrong, Akiko summoned a taxi and sped 300 miles from the family home in Ashiya, in southwestern Japan, to his hotel in Tokyo. By the time she arrived, early on the morning of July 19, Furuya had leaped from the staircase outside his eighth-floor room to the garden 92 feet below...
...Arata Isozaki, 52, Japan's leading architects today, now seek to harmonize and integrate new and old architecture. In spirit, the old and the new have never been far apart. "We never saw the conflict that still seems to bother people in the West," says Nobaki Furuya, an architecture student at Waseda University. "We never saw Le Corbusier or Mies van der Rohe as revolutionaries. For us, they always represented...
...embassy but were repulsed with two wounded; two of the Japanese were also hit in the exchange of fire. The police then laid siege to the occupied building while French and Dutch authorities hastily acted to meet the terrorists' demands. One was that Red Army Member Yutaka Furuya-who was arrested in Paris last July after he was found carrying counterfeit bills, fake passports, and a plan for attacks on embassies and businesses throughout France-be freed. He was whisked from his Parisian jail to The Netherlands in a French air force jet. (Strangely, Furuya resisted the move...
...refused to meet a $1 million ransom demand). Wearing black hoods and white gloves and holding guns at the backs of six hostages (three had been left behind because they were sick), the commandos boarded a bus to go to Schiphol Airport. After the hostages boarded the Boeing, Furuya was handed over to the terrorists. Then, as a flight crew boarded the aircraft, the hostages one by one disembarked. Surrounded by hundreds of troops and armored vehicles, the plane lifted off the runway, carrying enough fuel for an 8½-hour flight...
...emerging nations. Their sales have also benefited from the unexpected: Japan's National brand TV sets became an immediate bestseller in Nigeria largely because the name inspired patriotic fervor and many people thought that the sets must be a local product. "I never argue with them," says Mutsuhi Furuya, representative of the Japan External Trade Organization in Nigeria...