Word: hiroshi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merge or plead for a white knight (even foreigners are welcome) to save them from insolvency. Behind this seemingly misplaced optimism in Japan's ailing economy, however, is not so much faith in the ability of these stumbling Goliaths to right themselves as it is faith in people like Hiroshi Mikitani...
...example, Ashitaka, the future leader of an Emishi village, defends his village from a Tartari Gemi, an enormous creature covered with snakelike tentacles that destroys everything in its path. No creature shop in Hollywood today could create a Tartari Gemi as convincingly weird as that drawn by Shinji Otsuka, Hiroshi Shimizu, and the other animators. To hear a low, gravelly human voice issue from the monster is almost as frighteningly intriguing as his words: "Filthy humans. Know my pain and hatred...
Saving--or sacrificing--Japan's banks has become a litmus test. Obuchi's rescue plan envisions a "bridge bank" that would consolidate ailing institutions and protect healthy depositors without causing any outright failures. That means "the government will not cure the most crucial wounds," complains Hiroshi Kumagai, a leading member of the opposition. Kumagai wants to close bleeders like the Long Term Credit Bank, which holds more than $350 billion in international derivatives contracts. Institutions worldwide are party to those contracts, so the bitter medicine of a closing would not be Japan's alone to swallow. Whatever Obuchi does, most...
SANTA MONICA, California: His sports career finished, his professional reputation ruined, O.J. Simpson could always seek moral support from the 1968 Heisman Trophy he won as college football's best player. Not anymore. Under a court order signed by Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki, sheriff's deputies and a huge moving van arrived at Simpson's estate to confiscate property for payment of $33.5 million in damages for the death of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The $5,100 Heisman was one of the first items to go. The $500,000 inventory list submitted to Fujisaki by the Goldman family lawyers...
SANTA MONICA, California: His sports career finished, his professional reputation ruined, O.J. Simpson could always seek moral support from the 1968 Heisman Trophy he won as college football's best player. Not anymore. Under a court order signed by Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki, sheriff's deputies and a huge moving van arrived at Simpson's estate to confiscate property for payment of $33.5 million in damages for the death of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The $5,100 Heisman was one of the first items to go. The $500,000 inventory list submitted to Fujisaki by the Goldman family lawyers...