Word: ichi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...years later, Giulia served as a race official for the regatta this weekend. She attended the event along with Bettina, who is no longer in a wheelchair, her husband John Norton ’56 and their dogs, Ichi-Ban and Muddy. Muddy was named for the Muddy River, one of the rivers which feeds the Charles...
...Bankers themselves aren't inspiring much faith. Mizuho?the product of a merger between Fuji Bank, Industrial Bank of Japan and Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank?only opened its doors in April. It was immediately beset by problems when thousands of Mizuho customers using ATMs to wire cash found that tthe money had been deducted twice from their accounts. Then Japanese utilities sued after Mizuho's computers botched standing orders to pay monthly electricity, phone and gas bills. Because Mizuho handles the Tokyo city government's payroll and tax collection, Ishihara dispatched inspectors to examine the bank's books and management...
...similar descent takes hero Kakihara, (Japanese renaissance everyman Tadanobu Asano) to a blissful death in Ichi the Killer; in the modern Japanese cinema, death seems the only way out. This all-star gathering of evildoers unites ultraviolent comic artist Hideo Yamamoto, from whose manga the film was created, and screen violence helmer Miike Takahashi, who created last year's cult sensation Audition. Kakihara is a sado-masochistic punk gangster caught up in an underworld where dysfunction speaks louder than love. When his yakuza boss mysteriously disappears, Kakihara hunts for his abductor. In the process, he turns a mansion into...
...instead. These customers carry more than a thousand bucks in their wallets. It'll be easy. She'll call some guy friends?like they ever have anything better going on?and they'll do the roughing up and the threatening. Come on, she tells her friends, easiest ichi man?10,000 yen?you'll ever make...
...awash in mergers, but with a difference. Instead of trying to compete with U.S. and European banks, the country's financial institutions are combining to avoid bankruptcy following a decade of recession and bad loans. Simple survival was the driving force behind the recent merger of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo and the Industrial Bank of Japan, three laggard giants whose combined assets of $1.2 trillion make it the largest financial-services company in the world...