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...Well," said sprightly temple worker Kayoko Murakami, "people realized that they couldn't continue sakoku," or national seclusion. If not for the U.S. and Harris, she told me, "Japan could be like North Korea" today. Now there's a sobering thought. It helped to explain the Perry and Harris-mania that grips the town. By that I mean the "black ship" manholes in the streets, the Perry Aqua Dome at the Shimoda Aquarium and the dramatization of the Harris and Okichi story in tourist literature. The place even celebrates a black ship festival every May. Town officials are busily planning...
Jiangyu Zhu, 30, and Kayoko Kimbara, 32, were arrested last month for stealing sensitive research materials from their 1999 project designed to help transplant recipients’ bodies not reject transplanted organs...
Jiangyu Zhu, 30, and Kayoko Kimbara, 32, who worked and lived together before their arrest, had been analyzing cells that could eliminate organ transplant rejection. The results of their research were “highly marketable scientific information,” according to FBI agent Scott Robbins’ affidavit...
...They're not runaways, Kayoko and her friends, they're just a group of girls who still live at home but have formed this clique, group, O.K., call it a gang, that goes out on enjo kosai dates?pay dates?and pools the money. They share their secrets and fears because that makes them feel safer, somehow, like they're not alone. Kayoko, Ah and her gang live in the Western district of Osaka, a 40-minute train ride from the city center. An outsider just passing through might think their neighborhood looks quaint. There's a brook crisscrossed...
...tells Kayoko, tonight. Kayoko whips out her cell phone, makes the call, tells her friend Yo-chan about her plan. And that night, some salaryman, who's thinking he's going to get lucky with Kayoko, gets beat up instead, has his wallet stolen, and the next day Kayoko and her friends giggle about it on the bench...