Word: kazuhito
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...whom they believe possesses unsurpassed wisdom and power. In their eyes, Shoei Asai, the 70-year-old leader of a religious sect called Nichiren Kenshokai, is a healer and a prophet who envisions a looming calamity for Japan that he alone can avert. "Asai sensei understands" says Kazuhito Suzuki, a disillusioned, young construction worker who professes nothing but disdain for Japan's establishment and despair for the future. "He has the answers...
...have their own word for these losers, oyaji, which literally means father. Long ago, it connoted respect, endearment, even awe. "They used to have all the power. They were supposed to protect the family," says sociologist Yoko Shoji. "Now people just pity them." So what does oyaji mean now? Kazuhito Suzuki, a 20-year-old construction worker who admits to beating up an oyaji, snorts and rolls his eyes. Sitting on the front stoop of a pachinko parlor, he takes a drag on his cigarette and watches a parade of older men passing by. None of them looks...
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