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...Japan's only whaling fleet, owned by Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha of Tokyo, a ship-chartering firm. Sales of the meat are used solely to fund Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR), which conducts the studies. "The IWC convention stipulates that any by-product be processed and used," explains Hideki Moronuki of the Fisheries Agency. But independent scientists say the slaughter is wildly disproportionate to the research it produces...
...each other by saying, "See you at Yasukuni." Since 1945, Yasukuni has remained a quiet but potent and enduring symbol for the country's die-hard nationalists. Since 1959, priests at Yasukuni have quietly enshrined more than 1,000 convicted war criminals, not just Class-A criminals such as Hideki Tojo, the wartime Prime Minister, but also hundreds of military men who personally committed atrocities, ordered them to take place, or refrained from stopping them. At the museum next door, memorabilia from kamikaze pilots, the Burma death railway and other examples of Japan's wartime history are displayed in unequivocally...
...million Value of outfielder Hideki Matsui's new four-year contract with the New York Yankees, making him the highest-paid Japanese baseball player in the major leagues
...real estate industry. Wein & Malkin owns several large properties in midtown Manhattan, including the Empire State Building, purchased in 2002. Malkin and his associates bought the building for $57.5 million from Donald Trump, after several years of bitter legal battles with Trump and his co-investor, Hideki Yokoi...
...Class A, B, and C, respectively. More than 300,000 Japanese were charged with Class-B and -C war crimes, mostly over prisoner abuse. Twenty-five military and political leaders were convicted of waging war?a Class-A crime against peace?and 14 of those, including wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six others sentenced to death by the tribunal, are enshrined at Yasukuni...