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...members banished last year after voting against former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal-reform program. Though they pledged to toe the party line, their readmission sent a signal that the LDP's commitment to reform may be halfhearted. "It will hurt us badly," says Taro Kono, assistant chairman of the LDP's policy-research council. "Abe is seen as a weak leader." At least Bono likes...
What a team of researchers led by Tomohiro Kono at the Tokyo University of Agriculture did was create a genetically modified strain of mice in which the females produce eggs with an imprint that is somewhat father-like. Then, in a key step, the team extracted immature eggs from the newborn mice of this strain. Why is this important? The immature eggs had the most paternal imprint of all because they had not yet had time to sense that they were living in a female. By fusing these father-like eggs with normal, mother eggs, the Japanese researchers were able...
...have a better understanding of the biological underpinnings of procreation. "In spite of all the differences between men and women--our fights, arguments and seeming incompatibility--at the end of the day you still need a set of male and female genes for the species to go on," Kono says. "I find that fascinating." --With reporting by Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo
...Chen Guangyu, president of Changqingchun?a Huizhou-based company that makes Sennomoto-Kono, a diet drug linked to three recent deaths in Japan?has repeatedly insisted in the Japanese media that counterfeit drugs were actually the cause. "We have many copycats because we have such a good reputation," says the manager of the company's Beijing office, who identified herself only as Zhao. "We use only Chinese herbal medicines, not chemicals." Japan's Ministry of Health, however, found in recent tests that counterfeits of Sennomoto-kono contained no N-nitroso fenfluramine. Authentic Sennomoto-kono...
...other industries; and the bureaucrats. Because the LDP has essentially run Japan as a one-party fiefdom since the mid-1950s, real power broking has gone on inside the party, among rival factions and behind closed doors. "The LDP does its real work in the dark," says Taro Kono, a young LDP Lower House member. Under Koizumi's plan, the factions' grip on power was imperiled. Traditionally, Prime Ministers followed factions' wish lists for ministerial appointments; the largest group got the most positions. Koizumi ignored that, a move that particularly irritated the most powerful faction, headed by former Prime Minister...