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...each year -- are still refusing to fly. They're shirking not only destinations in America but in Asia and Europe as well, tearing a big chunk out of the $500 billion global travel and tourism industry. "Last year, we booked 17.8 million trips overseas -- the most ever," says Hiroshi Ueno of Japan Travel Bureau, the nation's leading travel agent. "This year, we were on target for 18.3 million. But after the flood of cancellations, that's an impossible goal...
...Clinic staff at Narita International Airport gave her oxygen and rushed her to the nearby Red Cross Hospital. There Dr. Hiroshi Morio immediately diagnosed a pulmonary embolism: a blood clot that had lodged in her lungs, possibly as a result of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a condition often prompted by prolonged periods of immobility. "It was easy to diagnose," says Morio. "She was in a critical condition." For seven days Ishii's family kept a bedside vigil, and she was eventually discharged after three weeks. Eight months later, the 57-year-old still takes daily doses of anticoagulants. Ishii knew...
...MICHAEL RITCHIE,62, acerbic American director best known for his debut films Downhill Racer and The Candidate; in New York City. Ritchie also directed the Fletch comedies starring Chevy Chase and an hbo production self-explanatorily titled The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. DIED. HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA, 74, Japanese film director and artist; in Tokyo. Teshigahara is best known abroad for directing the Oscar-nominated Woman in the Dunes, but he was also a calligrapher,ceramicist and headmaster of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, the renowned flower-arranging academy his father founded in 1927. FILED...
...Liberal Democratic Party pork, to set up a broad system of professional minor league teams in small markets. Still another plan is a World Baseball Cup, like that of soccer, held once every four years. But all require conviction and/or money, commodities in short supply in recession-ridden Japan. Hiroshi Gondo, ex-manager of the Yokohama Bay Stars, is especially skeptical: "I've been involved in Japanese pro ball for 40 years, and the one thing I can say is that nothing ever changes...
...hasn't gone back to sleep; the series continues today). There were also more serious parables of doomed romance, in which an unlikely couple represents the puniness of mankind in the smirking face of Armageddon. The glistening sand on the skin of the lovers in Hiroshima mon amour and Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes are a kind of atomic glaze - an artistic rendering of the nuclear dusting of those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the American bombings...