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...displaced refugees in Kurdish Iraq, his Japanese mother's friends told her they understood if she wanted to weep. After all, shouldn't a dutiful Japanese son return home and work for a big company, like the droves of salarymen before him? But in 1996, Onishi founded one of Japan's largest international NGOs, Peace Winds Japan, which operates everywhere from Sudan to East Timor. Today, the 41-year-old Osaka native has noticed that his countrymen no longer consider helping less fortunate foreigners a shameful occupation. Two former Peace Winds alumni now serve in the Diet, while Onishi recently...
...even in Japan, the President-Elect of the United States is a media darling. Well before this month's election, Obama fever was in full swing in a small town in western Japan called Obama, where residents formed hula teams in homage of the politician's Hawaii years. Ten months ago, Notchi didn't even know who Barack Obama was until his wife mentioned he looked like the up-and-coming politician. "I thought Obama was a pro wrestler or a fighter or something," the comedian recalls, wearing the dark suit - originally purchased for weddings and funerals - that he uses...
...there isn't much time to demur. If Japan doesn't feel comfortable inviting foreign workers into this sector, other nations like the U.S., Canada and Taiwan do - with open arms. "They are at much more advanced stage with accepting foreigners," admits Asato of Kyoto University. In 2006, the Philippines signed an agreement with Japan similar to Indonesia's, but the Filipino students later interviewed by Kyushu University's Hirano last year weren't interested. Without an attractive package from Japan, Hirano fears none of the high-caliber Filipino nurses will want to come...
...news. In a Tokyo apartment, his wife congratulated him in a flood of tears, and he also wept over the victory. Thanks to Barack Obama, Japanese comedian Nozomu Sato is having the most successful moment in his 20-year career. Sato, 43, widely known as Notchi, is now Japan's own full-time Barack Obama impersonator...
...warm welcome during his first stop in Chicago. He stopped in to see Zariff, the Chicago barber who has been cutting Obama's hair for the past 14 years. He sat on the same chair where Obama usually sits and got the same haircut - with scissors made in Japan - exactly the way Obama likes it. Between getting the Obama cut, eating his favorite food at his favorite Chicago diner, and sitting on the bench at the park where Obama used to bring his then-girlfriend Michelle, Notchi got plenty of inspiration for his performance - and plenty of attention. Reporters from...