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...known to her kin as Brunhild, escapes this seeming paradise, floating up under the umbrella-penumbra of a jellyfish. Nearing land, she gets her snout stuck in a jar, and a five-year-old boy on the rocks by the shore yanks her out. He is Sosuke (voiced by Hiroki Doi), and he decides to call his new pet Ponyo (Yuria Nara...
...here and eventually be naturalized as our citizens - to bring diversity to our country [Dec. 17]. I believe that foreigners would provide Japan with more creativity and new ways of thinking. This would produce a new Japan that is globalized to meet the requirements of the coming era. Nakano Hiroki, Saitama, Japan...
...Musicians and audiophiles, who swear by the warmer sound of older, analog equipment, are also up in arms. Hiroki Kimoto, manager of a shop selling secondhand music gear in Tokyo, says half of the guitar amplifiers in his inventory fall under the PSE. "We don't know what we're going to do. It's ludicrous. I have never heard anyone having safety problems with these machines, but the whole music culture could be affected." Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of Japan's most famous musicians, has moved to the forefront of a group lobbying for the law to be revised...
They drink, they smoke, they rarely get out of bed before 3 p.m. And they have cool hairdos. Hiroki Ueno, 23, and Yoshinobu Fujioka, 27, are not your typical Shinto-Buddhist monks, and their bar Vowz, tel: (81-3) 3353 1032, is not your average Buddhist enterprise either. Located in a former geisha precinct of Tokyo's Shinjuku ward, the bar is not known so much for spreading the good word as it is for its killer cocktails, liqueurs and sake...
...trimmed respectably. Every move he makes is closely watched by his remaining disciples?wide-eyed men and women who flock to the courtroom to bask in the aura of the man they still consider their spiritual father. "He never did what you expected him to," says one of them, Hiroki Araki. "But we are grateful for what he has given...