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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia's New Cinematic Values | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yet Another Japanese Zero? | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

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