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...icon in Blue Spring comes in the form of Kujo (Matsuda Ryuhei), the cool, aloof, recluse of the school. If you were reborn as a camera lens, you'd want to be pointed at Matsuda: he's rapture, he's angelic, he's to-die-for. And Aoki (Arai Hirofumi) does. Aoki's role in the relationship goes from subservient to rebellious. Kujo spurns Aoki and the latter, stripped of his sense of worth, makes the ultimate sacrifice. In the final showstopping scene, Aoki waits for Kujo to appear on the roof and, the moment he does, he lets...
...domestic economic policy front, he faces a bureaucracy as stubborn as that which opposed Tanaka. The aggressive head of the inspection division of the Financial Services Agency, Hirofumi Gomi, has been tenaciously reviewing the loan portfolios of Japan's leading banks and the balance sheets of debtor companies. The verdict: more bad debt than was previously estimated. But plans to take the results of Gomi's audits and crack down on corporate slackers is being stymied by higher-ups within his own agency. "Koizumi needs to make a decision and fire some people," says an analyst who has advised...
First Jordan, then Gretzky, now (maybe) Nakajima. HIROFUMI NAKAJIMA of Kofu, Japan, the undisputed world hot dog-eating champion, may not return to Coney Island July 4 to try to win the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest for a third time. The 131-lb. "Black Hole of Kofu" first won the competition in 1997, when he defeated 360-lb. Ed ("The Animal") Krachie of New York City by downing 24 1/2 dogs (plus buns). "At first they booed me, probably because I am a skinny little man," says Nakajima, who soon became a crowd favorite. A Nathan...
...Nokku Yokoyama, 36, member of a slapstick comedy team. From the Sato camp came other celebrities. Toko Kon, 70, is a Henry Milleresque Buddhist monk who gained fame as a writer of pornographic short stories, now likes to sling outrageous insults at prominent figures on a television talk show. Hirofumi Daimatsu, 47, coached Japan's Gold Medal women's volleyball team in the 1964 Olympics, and Shintaro Ishihara, 35, is the author of 22 novels on the attitudes of Japanese youth; he drew the largest vote (3,016,000) ever won by a Japanese parliamentary candidate...
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