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...ground, Keiichi Yamazaki heard the unusual sound of an airliner above his home in Nippara, a remote mountain village. "All of a sudden, a big air plane appeared from between mountains, just like out of no where," he recalled. "Four times it leaned to the left, and each time it tried to recover its balance to the right. It was flying just like a staggering drunk...
...Humane Society International (HSI) in Australia. But Japan's whaling industry argues that targeted species have recovered to the point where sustainable whaling is possible, and that the country shouldn't feel constrained by foreign sensitivities. "For Japanese people, whale is part of our food culture," says Keiichi Nakajima, president of the Japan Whaling Association...
...muggy afternoon in Suginami, an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Tokyo, and Keiichi Onizawa was strolling home from the train station. The 68-year-old journalist was alone on a quiet street sheltered by cherry trees along the Kanda River. Suddenly, he heard footsteps, then a loud voice: "You bastard!" Onizawa turned around to see two muscular young men rushing him. The shorter, stockier one swung an iron pipe at his head; Onizawa blocked it but the metal tore into his arm. A second blow ripped through his shirt and the flesh on his shoulder. For good measure, the taller...
...Keiichi Makino, a manga expert at Kyoto Seika University, praises the comics' "complex story lines, characters, sophisticated dialogue and drawings. The amount of information is astonishing." In the U.S., Japanese bookstores such as Kinokuniya in New York City carry a bilingual version of Division Chief Kosaku Shima. A book about the comics, with samples, is called Bringing Home the Sushi, available at Amazon.com...
...whole lot more than the i-mode-loving Japanese can find on their little phones. But i-mode isn't designed to compete with the desk-bound Web. "With a mobile phone, people don't have much time to read through a lot of data," says DoCoMo's Keiichi Enoki, one of i-mode's creators. "We thought people would want bursts of information while they are on the move...