Word: hokkaido
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...kwondo, jeet kune do, capoeira and "many of the esoteric brands between," outfought the duo with a cherry-red Gibson and plunged back into Tokyo's pulsating streets. His mission: to figure out what a little bird had to do with the deaths of a night porter in Hokkaido and the country's most beloved rock star...
Chaka?fighting writer, Japan aficionado and Cleveland native?is back in the land of the rising sun for Isaac Adamson's second hard-boiled mystery, Hokkaido Popsicle (HarperPerennial; 329 pages). Banished to the northern island's remote Hotel Kitty for punching a film director in the face, Chaka is left to analyze the innermost thoughts of his roommate, a "six-pound female Japanese bobcat of distinguished-merit parentage" before an elderly porter abruptly keels over in his room. That same night, Yoshimura ("Yoshi") Fukuzatsu, leader of Japan's most popular rock band, turns up dead in a run-down Tokyo...
...thieves will be sorely tempted by the ever-widening array of mechanically vendable goods. Fujitaka has created a machine that looks like a department store window and can sell everything from books to clothing. Hokkaido-based Handa Kikai Kigu is about to begin marketing the nation's first cotton candy vending machine. (How many times have you had a hankering for cotton candy and found no vendors?or carnivals?in site? None? Oops, perhaps Handa Kikai Kigu didn't do the market research on this one?or maybe, in Japan, if there's a product, there...
...phones. Will 3G be greeted with a similar yawn? DoCoMo is putting on a brave face, insisting it will be the first 3G provider on the planet. Its big competitor these days: the Isle of Man (pop. 73,000). Think of it: video conferencing between the Irish Sea and Hokkaido will soon be a snap...
...Japan: rote memory. You learn the hand motions for each song, in order. You can be a leader or, more likely, a follower. The moves are dictated by those magazines and parapara videos, which means that the dance going on in Kyushu is the same as that in Hokkaido. It sounds incredibly easy except for this final fact: there are 1,600 songs to memorize...