Word: kawai
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...line to win in 1:42.22.SETH H.PERLMANAbove:ERICS.ROSEN'OO of Kirkland Housepushes ahead at mile 20.Far left: With only 6.2 "smiles" to go,CHRISTOPHER BROWN of Bloomington, Minn. still hasa spring in his step.Near left: COWMAN AMOOHA of Kailua Kona,Hawaii, cools off before Heartbreak Hill inNewton.Right: KATSUYA KAWAI, 34, of Japan towersover the rest of the pack. He beat the four hourmark by a neck, finishing in 3:59:03.Below: JEAN DRISCOLL (right) ofChampaign, III., keeps pace with LOUISE SAUVAGE ofSydney, Australia. Sauvage edged out a victoryover Driscoll in the women's wheelchair race by amargin of just...
...Hayao Kawai, a prominent Jungian psychologist and a member of Hashimoto's reform advisory council, traces Japan's collective dishonesty to a cultural trait. Kawai likes to joke that he is president of Japan's "Liars' Club." "There is no club at all, really," he confesses, winking. "In Japan, as long as you are convinced you are lying for the good of the group, it's not a lie." So it is that Japan is a place where doctors often withhold information from their patients, instead telling family members about a serious illness. Corporations customarily withhold potentially damaging information from...
...Japan's stock markets back up, but top bureaucrats and politicians still hew to the notion that the public cannot be trusted with its own fate. In the context of today's rolling financial crisis, however, tolerance for deceit is evaporating. "Our culture is changing, but very slowly," says Kawai. "Now we have to learn how to help ourselves." True, indeed...
GEORGE LEWIS: TRIOS & BANDS (American Music). New Orleans-born George Lewis became a cult figure for traditional jazz fans the world over and the model of dozens of clarinetists ranging from Woody Allen to Britain's Sammy Rimington and Japan's Ryoichi Kawai. Lewis died in 1968, but musicologist Bill Russell, 87, is keeping his message alive with the CD release of historic acetate recordings Russell made a half-century ago. (American Music, 1206 Decatur Street, New Orleans...