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...limit set by Japan's Health Ministry. School children in Taiji eat dolphin, like the rest of the town's population. Junichiro Yamashita, who years ago raised national awareness of dolphin meat's health risks as Taiji's local assemblyman, was interviewed for the film along with current assemblyman Hisato Ryono. But Ryono, who was touted as a hero on the mercury issue in the documentary, told a local television station that he was informed his interview would be used in a film on "international contamination of the oceans," not for the Cove project. He has requested that the filmmakers...
...fried dolphin and sweet-and-sour minke whale are also occasional cafeteria offerings in this small fishing town, where sea mammals have long been considered a reliable source of protein. Taiji (pop. 3,600) is proudly regarded as the birthplace of Japan's 400-year-old whaling industry. But Hisato Ryono, a local assemblyman whose uncle used to work as a commercial whaler, is having second thoughts about schools serving his sons flippered fare. Not because he is finally bowing to international opposition to the hunting of dolphins, which scientists rank among the most intelligent animals. Or because...
...production jumped almost 100% to 219 on the 1934-36 index. But last week Japan had two somewhat more sober phrases to quote: naka-darumi, meaning pause, and oi-uchi, meaning a tightening. The pause in the boom had been brought about by the credit pinching of Finance Minister Hisato Ichimada to keep inflation from toppling the boom...
Finance Minister Hisato Ichimada had slashed imports, forced industrialists to export. Said he, stumping the factories: "Never mind about making more mouse traps. Just make better mousetraps." This year Japan made better mousetraps in the shape of cashmere sweaters, fine fabrics and china, and the world came flocking to her door...
...Ministry of Justice last week came an ominous announcement: starting next January, Japanese police will investigate "all activities-both public and private-of foreign residents." The announcement meant that the Japanese government was putting teeth in the tough new tax rules laid down for foreigners by Finance Minister Hisato Ichimada, and was planning to use the police to get reports on everything from house rent to laundry bills. It was further harsh evidence of worsening relations between U.S. businessmen and the Japanese government...