Word: hamada
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...this brisk and sunny spring morning, Diet member Yasukazu Hamada was undeterred. A young and conservative member of Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Hamada saw his pilgrimage to Yasukuni as a proper personal tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for his country. No offense to China was intended, he says, but no special concessions were made to soothe China's sensibilities, either. Three such parliamentary prayer services had been held every year for decades, Hamada notes, and this one had been scheduled long before the anti-Japanese riots in China. He looks surprised when asked whether...
...next day, he and Chinese President Hu Jintao met for 55 minutes on the sidelines of the conference. Hu urged Japan to "seriously reflect" on its wartime history and back up a government apology with action. Koizumi called it a "frank and meaningful" exchange. Yet in some respects, Hamada's tough words are more representative of Japan's current political climate than Koizumi's conciliatory ones. After more than a half a century of emerging only fitfully from a pacifist, passive shell, Japan today is striding onto the world stage more boldly than it has done for two generations...
Stylish women can now spray on instead of pull on. The Air Stocking, released by Nissin Medico in Japan last year and now available in the U.S., is applied like spray paint and makes legs appear to be covered by hosiery. Company founder Yoshiumi Hamada says he got the idea for the product while speaking to a female co-worker who complained of wearing hosiery in the heat. Air Stocking costs around $28 a can (yielding 20 to 25 applications), comes in three colors and washes off with soap and warm water. --By Tamika Edwards
...That kind of customer loyalty has the competition crying foul. In 2000, Hironobu Hamada, a director of Kodansha?Japan's largest publisher?told his shareholders that used-book stores could lead to unfair trade practices. And Tetsuo Okawa, director of the Japan Booksellers Federation, claims that Sakamoto, by purchasing from the public, encourages teens to shoplift books from other retailers so that they can fence them at Bookoff. Sakamoto finds the criticisms a little baffling. "I think we can live peacefully together," he says, "but they keep finding new ways to attack...