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...Suspicions of fixed bouts arise occasionally, but lately the commitment and character of ranking sumo wrestlers has come under question. Mongolian yokozuna (grand champion) Asashoryu begged off from participating in a tour of Japan, citing an injury, but he was then filmed playing soccer at home in Mongolia, earning him a two-tournament ban. Last February, then-stable master Junichi Yamamoto was arrested on suspicion of ordering three wrestlers to beat a 17-year-old during a training session - the youth later died of his injuries. Yamamoto and the wrestlers were arrested and charged, and are awaiting trial...
...What They're Wearing in Japan: Outgoing Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda failed to energize the country during his lackluster tenure, but he knows how to deliver a parting shot. "I'm not like you," Fukuda barked at a reporter who questioned whether he'd given his all in the post. The sharp comeback is now a pop-culture catchphrase; T shirts adorned with the remark are the best-selling item among more than 900,000 designs at online retailer Club...
ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY Developed in Japan, it fixes frayed joints with minimal invasion, enabling many athletes to begin rehab in days...
...gained the most from this deal? The big beneficiaries were the owners of the $5.3 trillion in Fannie and Freddie bonds and MBSS. Therein lies a fascinating, and disturbing, story. For years, the governments of countries that have run big trade surpluses with the U.S.--mainly Japan, China and the oil exporters--put their excess dollars into Treasury securities. When budget surpluses from 1998 to 2001 began to shrink the supply of Treasuries, foreign governments looked to Fannie and Freddie debt as an alternative. When the U.S. returned to deficits in 2002, they kept buying Frannie debt because it paid...
...there aren't enough of those moments. Instead, we get plenty of cringe-inducing inner ruminations (such as Theroux's particularly creepy thoughts on the inherent eroticism of the uniforms that female train-ticket attendants wear in Japan), and breathtaking generality - the best example of which is the bizarre rant at the very end. On the last page, Theroux writes this: "Most of the world is worsening, shrinking to a ball of bungled desolation. Only the old can really see how gracelessly the world is ageing and all that we have lost...