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...raises taxes, the city is closing schools, libraries and nursing homes in a desperate effort to cut costs. Unsurprisingly, many Yubarians are simply leaving town. "We'll be forced to provide the bare minimum social services, while having the highest tax burden that is allowed by law," says Hisashi Hirano, a municipal official. "I worry about Yubari disappearing." Hirano, by the way, is in charge of Yubari's public relations...
...about building the new, $7.3 billion, 26-gate Central Japan International Airport on a man-made island in Ise Bay, it did so with careful cost controls. (In the rest of Japan, many public-works projects are case studies in waste.) The airport, headed by former Toyota executive Yukihisa Hirano and half funded by the private sector, was almost $1 billion under budget when it opened last month. Combined with the World Expo, it may help local leaders to build an international profile to match its rising domestic status. But will that "Nagoya Gal" look play abroad...
...rebels at the talks, tentatively scheduled to begin early next week in a Lima church. Already, though, Fujimori's overture-of-sorts has shown signs of bearing fruit: after a 17-day stalemate, the rebels released another hostage early Friday afternoon, anti-terrorism police official Luis Valencia Hirano, who reportedly needed medical treatment...
Michael S. Choe '94, Zemin W. Li '94 and Shigeo Hirano '94 also participated in the program...
...Hikotaro Hirano was a 22-year-old foot soldier stationed in Manchuria when he died in battle against the invading Russians in the final week of World War II. Late last month his aging parents and a small group of mourners filed through the rain into a peaceful Buddhist temple outside Osaka. There, after a priest sounded a massive gong to begin a memorial sutra, the worshipers paid their silent respects to Hikotaro's memory. According to the Buddhist calendar, it was the 33rd anniversary of his death-the date on which the spirits of the dead are believed...