Word: ito
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...Amazing Screw-On Head," by Mike Mignola is a delightfully goofball one-shot about an animate doll's head that gets called upon to save the world. It was nominated for best humor publication. In a completely different vein, Junji Ito's "Uzumaki," an English-translated series of fat Japanese manga books, is a really interesting horror comic about a town whose residents suddenly discover their lives are plagued by spiral shapes. Their bodies twist into snail shells and those who try to leave get returned back again. On the more serious side it was a great pleasure to find...
Harvard extended its lead to 3-0 when Codini took a Gardner feed and skipped a shot off the water and ito the bottom right corner of the goal...
...persistent cleanup efforts, many observers believe nationalization is a foregone conclusion for the weakest banks. "I don't see any way out," says Mitsuhiro Fukao, a professor of economics at Keio University, Tokyo, and reportedly a candidate to become governor of the Bank of Japan in March. Says Takatoshi Ito, a former Finance Ministry official and fellow contender for the Bank of Japan job: "This has been going on for some time, but the momentum for crisis is building." A turning point in Japan's intractable financial mess may, for better or worse, finally be at hand...
...want a look at what's really ailing the Japanese economy, just drive over on any given weekend to the Ito-Yokado shopping center parking lot in Shinyurigaoka, a large suburb half an hour west of Tokyo. Actually, it doesn't matter where you go, since the same scene is played out at parking garages, train stations and construction sites all over the country. But on a typical weekend here in Shinyurigaoka, there are four guards at the intersection directing traffic. Another man is on hand to make sure you don't miss the turn that leads to the garage...
...That may have changed with the shocking murder last Friday of Diet member Koki Ishii. The 61-year-old Ishii was steps away from his car outside his home when he was stabbed repeatedly with what appeared to be a 30-cm sashimi knife by Hakusui Ito, a 38-year-old with ties to right-wing extremists. Ito fled the scene but turned himself in to the police the following day. The news stunned lawmakers, many of whom were in the middle of a budget debate when the murder took place. "The use of violence to silence politicians is utterly...