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...careers. "I made the first movie as an obscure TV director," says Katsuyuki Motohiro. "Next thing I knew, I was one of the hottest movie directors in the country." Motohiro is back behind the camera for the sequel, as are all of the original film's screenwriters and producers. Also present for encores is the cast, including actor and singer Yuji Oda in the starring role as Aoshima, the boyishly handsome detective. With a bigger budget, a handful of new faces (including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's son Kotaro playing a police-department surveillance expert) and the most extensive domestic...
...coincidence that the first institution he attacked as a young politician was the post office, which sits on a huge treasure chest of Japanese personal savings and is linked with the kinds of officials his mentor so despised. "When Koizumi says 'reform' he means to destroy that faction," says Katsuyuki Yakushiji, a journalist who has known the Prime Minister for many years. "The fact that reforming might also be good for Japan is secondary...
Beyond the initial political shocks, an entirely new sense of unease has spread through Japan. The brusque treatment they received from Washington "has been a revelation for the Japanese," says Katsuyuki Ochi, political editor of Japan's leading financial daily, Nihon Keizai Shimbun. "They now realize that the international stage is a much colder place than they had imagined, and that sentimentalism of any brand has little role to play in the pursuit of national interests...
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