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...they just sit there and practically drool over her at the cabaret and then fork over a few hundred dollars to have sex. So why not, you know, lead them on? Make them think she was going to give it up, and then jump the guys and rob them. Kayoko, a thin 17-year-old with long, permed hair, is sitting with two girlfriends on a wooden bench when she hatches the plan. This grassy park adjacent to their former junior high is where they kill their afternoons, smoking joints or Marlboros, sniffing thinner, whatever it takes to escape their...
...Kayoko snuffs out her cigarette and explains that the next time a guy wants to pay to have sex with her, she and her friends are gonna rob him instead. These customers carry more than a thousand bucks in their wallets. It'll be easy. She'll call some guy friends?like they ever have anything better going on?and they'll do the roughing up and the threatening. Come on, she tells her friends, easiest ichi man?10,000 yen?you'll ever make...
...popularity for him. At 35, he was still unmarried, a major drawback for an ambitious politician. A matchmaker was consulted, and Koizumi picked out a photo of a kimono-clad university student 14 years his junior. He proposed the day after their first date, and in 1978 Koizumi and Kayoko Miyamoto were wed before 2,500 guests. The marriage didn't last, and in 1982, after having two sons, they divorced. His right-hand man says the whole matter was pure politics. Miyamoto wasn't cutting it as a political wife, says longtime aide Isao Iijima. He told Koizumi, "Choose...
...entourage: there was no Mrs. Koizumi. In 1977, the inner circle presented him with dozens of photos of potential spouses, which he stacked high on his parliamentary office desk. The one that caught his eye was of a kimono-clad beauty, a 21-year-old university student named Kayoko Miyamoto. Her family was from Kamakura, an upper-class town of bamboo-shaded temples and hydrangea gardens, not far from Yokosuka, in Koizumi's legislative district. Her grandfather had founded a large pharmaceutical company, and she grew up in a wealthy, though not ostentatious, environment. On their first date, Koizumi...
...emphasizes an irresponsible attitude. It is not only Japan's voters who don't accept responsibility; politicians, bureaucrats and corporations also seem quite good at evading responsibilities they are paid to shoulder. Have we been spoiled for too long by a half-century of postwar peace and prosperity? KAYOKO KITADA Osaka, Japan Via E-mail...