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These days going to Tokyo Disneyland is the closest thing to going abroad. So many Japanese abandoned their overseas travel plans to visit the amusement complex instead that attendance for the fiscal year ending Oct. 1 showed a jump of 16%. Takayuki Kawaguchi, 31, and his wife Hanako, 30, should have been spending a late-autumn weekend in Australia where the finance company he works for had planned to celebrate its 10th anniversary. After the U.S. attacks, the company canceled the trip. So Kawaguchi was making it up to his disappointed wife, an events M.C., and their two toddlers with...
...occasion, Tanaka's frankness verges on the coarse. In his 1966 autobiography, which he hands out to visitors to the sprawling Tokyo mansion where he lives with his wife Hanako, he tells of being offered a geisha to sleep with one night toward the end of the war, during his contractor days. Tanaka chivalrously sent her home because she looked "too fragile," but the memory of the encounter, he writes, grows "increasingly more vivid" with time. At times, Tanaka indulges in sentimentality. On the long flight to Honolulu last month, he dashed off several sayings in Chinese calligraphy, which...
...wait to be ushered in for brief audiences with Tanaka. The new Premier's 19-hour days do not permit much leisure; aside from golf, his chief pastime nowadays is the art of calligraphy. He rarely socializes at night, preferring to spend his evenings with his handsome wife Hanako. When he married her at 24, she was already 31. "As I worked hard day and night and Sundays and holidays," Tanaka explained in his autobiography, "I needed a woman like her, not a younger one, for my wife. Since then she has been the finance minister and the keeper...
...Imperial navy. His country's defeat left him a civilian, and like other kinsmen of the Imperial family, without title. His Tokyo mansion had been bombed; he built himself a modest cottage on the site of the ruins. There he and his wife, the former Princess Hanako Kanin, settled down as plain Mr. & Mrs. Hironobu Kacho...
...drugged. At first one drop, then two-until he had completely won her heart." One night last July, Toda called at the Kacho cottage, presumably to talk charities. "Unsuspectingly," said the ex-prince, "I opened the door to the cloakroom and there I discovered the figures of Toda and Hanako as I should never have seen them...
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