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Graphic novels--long comic books for grownups--have always had mostly cult appeal. Last year's most successful, the 13th volume in a Japanese manga adventure series--Naruto, by Masashi Kishimoto--sold 80,000 copies, far short of 2007's hottest novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, which sold more than 1.5 million copies. The point of the comics was largely their transgressiveness. "They're the last pirate medium," says Millar, a Scottish writer who consults for Marvel Comics on more mainstream fare, like Iron Man. "They're the last medium for a mass audience where...
...studies at Tokyo Kasei University: "There is a view that it's too bad she doesn't continue her work as a pioneer." She will be consigned to attending cultural events, tending to charity work and composing poems, an exacting task expected of all imperials. But, says Yukiko Kishimoto, the author of several books on women, "she is already a star and a diplomat, and she made up her own mind, which shows great independence...
...group of grateful blue-collar workers in LaVergne, Tenn., a tiny factory town outside Nashville, welcomed the Japanese as saviors. Bridgestone Tire Co. of Japan bought LaVergne's truck-tire plant from Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. for $52 million. In a ceremony to mark the occasion, Satoshi Kishimoto, a Bridgestone executive who will be the plant's general manager, greeted 200 of his new employees with a cheery "Hi, you all." After he helped plant four tulip poplars, Tennessee's state tree, to commemorate a new "era of unity," the workers erupted into a rousing ovation...
...comparison, Japanese Buddhism sees no need for a God and is "practical and psychological." Its main concern, to Kishimoto, is "why humans have so many unnecessary worries." He said it is now the dominant power among religions in Japan...
Although the introduction of Christianity in Japan is misinterpreted as a Western intervention to "Westernize the East," Kishimoto asserted, "it is modernizing the East and greatly influencing Japanese social life." Christian monogamy, equality, and humility are taught and accepted in his country, the professor concluded, but there is no Christian influence upon Japanese concepts of deity...