Word: ibaraki
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...finger at me. Once a little kid on the train looked at me and exclaimed, 'Look, there is a fairy!' which was kind of embarrassing, but I didn't care because I just wear what I like." Sanae Nagamine, a 21-year-old waitress from Hitachi in northeastern Ibaraki prefecture, had to take a two-hour train ride to join her friends on this pilgrimage to Jesus Diamante, one of the first fashion brands to promote hime-kei, as the look is known, with its frilly pastel frocks and ringlet hairdos. With money earned from part-time work, the girls...
...Economic and Fiscal Policy, Heizo Takenaka, in place?a move that was seen as showing Koizumi's commitment to banking reform. Koizumi is a man of great integrity, but a lot will be expected from him if he is elected to a second term in November. Kazunari Iwamoto Ibaraki, Japan...
...seekers. "There are so many of those, I can't keep count," Nishimura says. Police are starting to take notice, though. Last month, after someone left a message identifying a schoolgirl and threatening to rape her, anonymous callers tipped off police, who immediately surrounded the girl's school in Ibaraki prefecture. Fortunately, this one turned out to be a sick prank. Most prefectures have high-tech departments dealing with Internet and related crimes. But it's difficult to catch the author of an anonymous message if the bulletin board is accessed through a public computer. "Sometimes...
Most people wouldn't make the trip from Columbia to Harvard via Ibaraki...
...cable and microwave through ABC in New York City to 187 stations and several million homes across the U.S., and to a ground station at Brewster Flat, Wash. There the signal was ricocheted off the Lani Bird 2 satellite 22,300 miles above the Pacific Ocean, picked up in Ibaraki, Japan, and relayed through Tokyo to an additional 600 stations and millions of homes. From stadium to Scarsdale split-level to sake bar in Tokyo, the entire 100,000-mile journey took only a little more than half a second...