Word: hironobu
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...That kind of customer loyalty has the competition crying foul. In 2000, Hironobu Hamada, a director of Kodansha?Japan's largest publisher?told his shareholders that used-book stores could lead to unfair trade practices. And Tetsuo Okawa, director of the Japan Booksellers Federation, claims that Sakamoto, by purchasing from the public, encourages teens to shoplift books from other retailers so that they can fence them at Bookoff. Sakamoto finds the criticisms a little baffling. "I think we can live peacefully together," he says, "but they keep finding new ways to attack...
...skin and hair are notoriously tough to manage on computers; even Spielberg once said he'd never attempt to create CG humans. Now about 200 animators and artists, some of whom have been at it for more than two years, are laboring in near secrecy under creator and director Hironobu Sakaguchi. Veterans of Titanic and The Matrix have been drafted alongside video-game gurus from Japan...
...salad days of war, meek, myopic Prince Hironobu Fushimi, distant cousin of Emperor Hirohito, was a middle-aged captain in the Imperial navy. His country's defeat left him a civilian, and like other kinsmen of the Imperial family, without title. His Tokyo mansion had been bombed; he built himself a modest cottage on the site of the ruins. There he and his wife, the former Princess Hanako Kanin, settled down as plain Mr. & Mrs. Hironobu Kacho...
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