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...Tokyo stock market, Nomura ignored its own myth. Rather than helping small investors, the company furtively paid out millions of dollars to a few large corporate customers to cover losses they had suffered in the market's fall. Even worse, Nomura had allegedly helped arrange loans to Susumu Ishii, the onetime leader of one of Japan's largest crime syndicates. Last week Yoshihisa Tabuchi, the company's president, resigned to take responsibility for Nomura's damaged reputation...
Japanese police have been investigating West Tsusho, which press reports say is an arm of a company controlled by Susumu Ishii, onetime head of Japan's second largest crime syndicate. Documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission show that Bush helped West Tsusho invest heavily in two American firms: Quantum Access, a Houston-based software company, and Asset Management International Financing & Settlement, a New York City-based firm...
...Japanese are baptized Christians. At least 36 Protestant chapels in Tokyo cater especially to the "outsiders," but some couples even go to Guam or Hawaii for their ceremonies. The main reason they choose a Christian wedding: "It is so kakko ii [groovy]." Nevertheless, says the Rev. Eiichiro Ishii, "a mere contact with the atmosphere of the church might prove a first step for them to Christianity...
ISSUN BOSHI, THE INCHLING by Momoko Ishii, illustrated by Fuku Akino (Walker; $3.50). Another old Japanese fable, handsomely illustrated. The hero is no bigger than a man's thumb and is resigned to life as a paperweight for a beautiful princess. But then he slays a dreadful demon, and guess what his reward is? A wish on a magic mallet transforms him into a full-size man and he marries the princess to live happily ever after...
...first ballot Kishi was way out front, and Ishii, finishing third, was automatically eliminated. On the second ballot Ishii threw his strength to Ishibashi, and it was enough to give Ishibashi a narrow victory over Kishi...