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...Parasite Eve was first published in Japanese in 1995, and together with Koji Suzuki's Ring helped to launch a new wave of Japanese horror - both novels were made into movies. Director Hideo Nakata's adaptation of Ring enjoyed more domestic success than the Fuji TV-produced Parasite Eve, but Sena's story reached a broader audience outside Japan through a Sony PlayStation video-game adaptation that shifted the tale to New York City and ratcheted up the gore - most fantastically in the mass spontaneous combustion of an opera audience at Carnegie Hall. There are also two Japanese manga versions...
...governor of the Bank of Japan. Shirakawa, 58, became the deputy bank governor in mid-March and then took over as interim governor after former central bank governor Toshihiko Fukui retired from his five-year term on March 19. The DPJ refused the two previous nominees - Toshiro Muto and Koji Tanami - over concerns that their ties to the Finance Ministry might compromise the bank's independence. The lack of a permanent leader in the BOJ's top desk, however, has led observers within and outside Japan to question the nation's credibility as a global financial player...
...country's baseball organization, the Nippon Professional Baseball league (NPB) grumbled. Its best players are migrating to the States. American games are cutting into the Japanese pastime's TV ratings. And now this latest spit in its eye just as NPB opening week commenced. Complained Yomiuri Giants pitching star Koji Uehara, "We're just starting our season. So why does the MLB have to come to play here. There's nothing to be gained from this." Added a Japanese professional baseball official, who wished to remain anonymous, "Every time the MLB holds one of their openers in Japan, sales...
...central bank debacle is just the latest example of paralysis. After months of bickering over Fukui's successor, DPJ politicians last week rejected Fukuda's first nominee, BoJ deputy governor Toshiro Muto, and this week shot down his second choice, Koji Tanami, the governor of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. Both Muto and Tanami are former Ministry of Finance (MOF) officials; the DPJ says it won't accept a former MOF bureaucrat as central bank chief because it wants to ensure the independence of the central bank and to insulate monetary policy from meddling by the administration...
...billion--more than triple that of General Motors--the stock has fallen well behind shares of Japanese rivals Toyota and Honda in the past two years. And some of the air has come out of the chief's reputation. "Ghosn's strategy has been all about cost cutting," says Koji Endo, an analyst with Credit Suisse in Tokyo. "He needs to prove that he can bring real growth to the company's top line. We've yet to see that...