Word: hideki
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...Hideki Gondo (Tsutomu Yamazaki) is her dark double, a crippled, spidery man whose vast real estate portfolio includes a chain of notorious hot-sheet hotels. Gondo's outward manner vividly contrasts with Ryoko's. He too has a childish air about him, but it is the air of a spoiled child. Abruptly cruel and totally selfish, he is as maniacally dedicated to tax avoidance as she is to tax compliance. She may spare a moment from investigative accountancy for compassion (directed at his troubled teenage son). He may digress from getting and hoarding to express a possibly authentic romantic longing...
...World War II. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone thus touched a tender nerve last August when he became the first postwar Prime Minister to make an official visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto holy place in Tokyo honoring Japanese war dead, including convicted criminals like Wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. The Chinese reacted with denunciations of a new Japanese "militarism," and last month placard-waving students from Peking University mounted a protest demonstration...
DIED. Katsuko Tojo, 91, widow of Japan's World War II Prime Minister and Imperial Army commander, General Hideki Tojo; in Tokyo. Tojo, who was hanged in 1948 for war crimes, never discussed affairs of state with his wife, and she learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor (which he personally ordered) on the radio. She led a quiet life out of the public eye (though one son last year was named president of Mitsubishi Motors) and remained unwaveringly loyal to his memory...
...DIED. Hideki Yukawa, 74, Japanese physicist who, while working as a visiting professor at Columbia University in 1949, became his country's first Nobel prizewinner for his theories on subatomic particles, which predicted the existence of the meson, a bit of energized matter believed to hold the atomic nucleus together; of pneumonia; in Kyoto...
Though the appointment has evoked little if any comment in either Japan or the U.S., the selection of Tojo is an ironic one. Mitsubishi's new boss is the son of Hideki Tojo, the Japanese wartime Prime Minister who directed the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and was later tried and executed by an Allied war crimes tribunal...