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...their part, Japan's top officials eagerly participated in the cultural pillaging, amassing enormous personal collections. When the first Governor General, Ito Hirobumi, was assassinated after a four-year reign, he owned more than 1,000 pieces of celadon. The third Governor General, Masataka Terauchi, assembled 1,855 works of calligraphy, 432 books and 2,000 pieces of celadon, mirrors and other artifacts. Terauchi's collection ended up at Yamaguchi Women's University, according to Nam Yong Chang, a Japanese academic of Korean ancestry, who says only a fraction of the collection was later returned to Korea. Everybody knew what...
...Brad T. Ito, an MIT senior who takes credit for initially hanging the banners, said he thinks they do more good than harm...
...There are some very profound messages on it,” Ito said. “I’m glad to see that messages which are disturbing have more responses to them, to show that it’s not the sentiment of the entire community...
...cool $26 million for the services of Hidetoshi Nakata; the 24-year-old midfielder, now firmly established in Italian football, previously played for Perugia. Although sorry to see their favorites go, Japanese fans are proud of what the exodus represents. "Japanese football is entering a new era," crows Takehiko Ito, managing editor of Tokyo's weekly Soccer Magazine. Arsenal's French manager ArsÈne Wenger, who coached J-League side Nagoya Grampus Eight from 1995 to '96, agrees. "It's time for a Japanese player to do well in the Premier League," he told the daily Yomiuri. A decade...
...Although sorry to see their favorite players go, Japanese fans are proud of what the exodus represents. "Japanese football is entering a new era," crows Takehiko Ito, managing editor of Tokyo's weekly Soccer Magazine. Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger, who coached J-League side Nagoya Grampus Eight from 1995-96, agrees. "It's time for a Japanese player to do well in the Premier League," he told the daily Yomiuri. He's betting Inamoto?who has "good technique and good vision"?will be that player...