Word: hasegawa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make amends, Takeshita responded last week with a Cabinet shuffle, ousting 15 of his 20 Ministers. But his new Justice Minister, Takashi Hasegawa, was forced to resign only three days later after it was disclosed that one of his political support groups had accepted legal-but-compromising cash contributions of $3,800 a month from the company behind the stock episode...
...typical programmed celebration was the recent wedding of Koji Takahashi, 26, an architect, to Kazuko Hasegawa, 23, at Meiji Memorial Hall, Tokyo's most prestigious marriage parlor. After the simple Shinto ceremony, capped by a sip of ritual sake, the groom, in cutaway coat and silk tie, and the bride, in a dazzling kimono, sat down with their 125 guests to consume a banquet, including lobster salad and ice cream. The master of ceremonies introduced important people from the couple's life-parents, teachers, bosses and friends. The guests offered presents. The current favored gift in Japan...
...eyebrow, the yes that is not really a yes, the small nuance of conversation that can never be written down. Comprehension comes because these leaders usually have the same roots of culture and class. Often, they have gone to the same elite schools and universities. Says Norishige Hasegawa, chairman of Sumitomo Chemical Co., as he points to his school necktie: "The old-school-tie system is not unique to Japan, but we do not have as many different schools as Western countries...