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...Jong Il, consult one of the many tell-all memoirs written by former employees and associates. Published in Japan late last month, the newest book is Kim Jong-il's Chef, which offers an inside look from the kitchen. According to the author, who goes by the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto (he says Kim threatened to kill him), the Dear Leader has a 10,000-bottle wine cellar, likes Mazda RX-7 sports cars, enjoys dog soup on Sundays and "every special dog-eating summer day" and thinks his second son, Kim Jong Chol, is "like a girl." The book claims...
...Whatever happens legally, unless there’s a successful Constitutional challenge brought, Congress will always retain the right to close any loophole or any finding of compliance,” says Kenji Yoshino ’91, a Yale professor who specializes in discrimination and gay rights...
...eight. His father was a singer and ukulele player for the Mahina Stars, a group that plays Hawaiian pop and is well known in Japan. It was while studying in art school that he started a kitsch pop band called Flipper's Guitar with former junior-high buddy Kenji Ozawa (nephew of conductor Seiji Ozawa). A demo tape of theirs found its way to Polystar Records (where Oyamada is still based) and the duo were immediately signed...
...Visitors to the MCA will be immediately struck, not by darkness but by an explosion of Day-Glo pop. Kenji Yanobe's bubble-blowing Astro Boy wall sculpture, Myeong-eun Shin's floor of 400 plastic pink poodles, and Satoshi Hirose's room of 5,000 fragrant lemons seem to celebrate Japan's ongoing culture of kawaii (cute). But like a sugar-coated almond, "NEO-TOKYO" leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste...
...year after the Tokyo subway attacks, Osaka-born Kenji Yanobe began creating his radiation-proof suits and cars, as well as traveling to nuclear test and accident sites such as Nevada and Chernobyl. "I'm not really a strong man mentally or physically," says the artist. "That's why I have to make something, a protective suit, because I'm really a coward, afraid of many things. I have to create something. I have to survive." For Sydney's Antenna of the World, 2001, Yanobe places a life-size figure of himself amid 400 miniature "Atom" figures, some of which...