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...pill-related deaths in Japan touched off a round of criticism directed at the country's health officials, who drew fire for being slow to respond when people started getting sick. "Sometimes I wonder how many people had to die before anyone did anything," says Dr. Masayuki Adachi of Keio University Hospital in Tokyo. The 31-year-old doctor alerted the government in late April when two of his patients, both women, suffered liver failure after taking Chinese diet pills. "I couldn't prove a definitive connection," he says, "but I knew these drugs were very popular, that my patients...
...survey by Koizumi's office finds that 65% of the population are feeling insecure and fearful of the future - higher than at any point since 1958. "Our wealth," says former Vice Minister of Finance Eisuke Sakakibara, now director of an economic think tank and professor at Keio University, "is slipping away...
...accepted into Japan's most élite high school, a Yokohoma prep school affiliated with prestigious Keio University. To facilitate Obara's entry to the school his father purchased the Den'en Chofu mansion and sent the boy to live there with a maid. When Obara was 17, his father died, leaving holdings in Tokyo and Osaka...
...Obara had graduated from Keio University (alma mater of newly elected Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi) with degrees in politics and law, become a naturalized Japanese citizen and legally changed his name to Obara. Once he had expunged his Korean lineage, Obara, with his wealth and his educational background, could have entered the nation's ruling élite, becoming, perhaps, a top bureaucrat or corporate chieftain. Instead he became a man of his times, leading a desultory, undistinguished existence, punctuated by his disastrous forays into real estate speculation. He formed an investment company, Plant, in 1988, relatively late in the bubble...
...Chika Aoyama, 23, is on her fourth jaunt to a host club, this time with a group of associates from her job in TV. As a leggy graduate of one of the country's best schools, Keio University, she defies the stereotype of host-club customers as dateless losers or low-class nightlife workers. "Just a year ago, I thought host clubs were scary places where men tried to fool you out of a lot of money," Aoyama says. "But I found the boys are so friendly and unthreatening. In the shortest time, it's gone from illicit to normal...