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...Crypt" and its sister titles in the early 1950s. Ito's chilling stories have some of the oddest premises in the genre. "Uzumaki," published in the U.S. by Viz in 2002, featured a town visited by a plague of spirals. "Gyo" starts out with Tadashi and his girlfriend Kaori on vacation at the coastal city of Okinawa. She's sensitive to smells and becomes overwhelmed by a powerful stench. Tadashi soon locates the source: a rotting fish with mechanical, insectoid legs that has crawled out of the sea and found its way into their bungalow...
...their cars across one of the airfield's long runways to get a glimpse of America's military hardware: an AWAC surveillance plane, armored vehicles, grenade launchers. Still, thoughts of the alleged rape were never far away. "My girlfriends and I are always bothered by these American servicemen," said Kaori Teruya. "They live in this safe place, behind fences, but they come out, do bad things to us and then return to their safe refuge." That uneasy relationship between the young people of two close allies won't end anytime soon...
...produce strange anomalies. On Saturday and Sunday, following the furor over Friday's alleged rape, the Kadena base opened its gates to visitors for an "American Fest" with carnival rides, a haunted house and a menu of hotdogs, hamburgers and barbecued ribs. One of the visitors, 27-year-old Kaori Teruya, stepped inside a huge transport plane, the reports of the rape attack not far from her mind. "My girlfriends and I are always bothered by these American servicemen," Teruya said. "I am scared." The disturbing question is: How can Okinawans like Teruya feel so unsafe living alongside U.S. servicemen...
...established aesthetics of the house. Ask a European or an American fashion editor to name a fresh, up-and-coming Japanese face and you get only silence. A Japanese fashion editor will tell you which Japanese designers are showing - Junko Shimada, Atsuro Tsuyama and Yoshiki Hishinuma - but as Kaori Tsukamoto, fashion director for Vogue Japan, admitted in Paris: "I'm not going to those shows...
Parents' speaking a foreign language can embarrass children. Riki Hayashi, 6, shocked his Japanese-born mother Kaori last year by announcing that he did not want her to speak her native tongue when his schoolmates came to visit at their Culver City, Calif., home. "All his friends are American, and in his concept of himself he is American," sighs Kaori. The parents' poor command of English can prove awkward. Children are pressed into service for their immigrant parents in all kinds of circumstances: when the electric company sends a dunning notice, the landlord needs a lease signed, a policeman needs...