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...aesthetic appeal of the shimmering paddies. The land would be ravaged by typhoons without well-tended rice fields, which act as sponges during heavy rains and are a buffer against erosion, according to farmers. "The rice paddies prevent floods and landslides and maintain the Japanese landscape," says Masahiro Konno, general manager at the WTO office of Japan's Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives. "A destruction of the rice farm will destroy agriculture in Japan...
...great contrast to the price of an African life, the life of an executive at the Sanyo Corporation is worth $2 million. In August 1996, according to CNN, kidnappers in Tijuana, Mexico, released Mamoru Konno after his company paid the $2 million ransom they were demanding. In other words, his life is worth as much money as 10,000 African lives. When lives are put in stark terms of cash value—one life the victim of extortionists and the other the victim of cruel circumstance—the disparity in “value” is shockingly...
...face and name to someone, we feel compassion and the urge to help. But I’ve got names: Richard Mubweka, Mildred Bwire Auma, Hanneac Mkwapada and Fela Kuti, all victims of an early death from AIDS, all as valuable to their families as Mamoru Konno. Surely, their families would have paid $2 million to save them, if they had been able to afford...
...Noted "Given the exceptional atmosphere of the event, we must face the possibility of unwanted babies fathered by foreigners who rape our women." TAKAYOSHI KONNO, Local politician, on Japan's fears of British hooliganism at the World...
FREED. MAMORU KONNO, 57, president of Sanyo Video Components USA Corp., who was kidnapped on Aug. 10 in Mexico; after payment of a $2 million ransom; in Tijuana. The kidnappers remain at large...