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...Endorsement from top Japanese celebrities?like actress Mami Kumagai, who has been using Fukumitsuya's Amino Rice line?hasn't done any harm either. Some producers are now trying to boost skin-care goods to 50% of all sake sales, and hope that the current buzz is more than just a passing fad. If it isn't, they'll certainly have plenty of sake left over in which to drown their sorrows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beauty and the Yeast | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...drink it," says Yasuko Okitsu of Fukumitsuya Sake Brewery (ff-style.com), which has at least three rice-based skin-care lines, with some products made with nonalcoholic sake. "Sake is good for the skin and health; it has a lot of benefits." Endorsement from top Japanese celebrities - like actress Mami Kumagai, who has been using Fukumitsuya's Amino Rice line - hasn't done any harm either. Some producers are now trying to boost skin-care goods to 50% of all sake sales, and hope that the current buzz is more than just a passing fad. If it isn't, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beauty and the Yeast | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

...Engineering H.T. Kung, Professor of Biostatistics Nan M. Laird, Divinity School Associate Dean for Academic Affairs David C. Lamberth, Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May, Law School Dean of the J.D. Program Todd D. Rakoff ’67, Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs John Ruggie, and Kumagai Professor of Architectural Technology Daniel L. Schodek...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Distance Learning Committee Discusses Residency Rule | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

Iroaki Doi and Mayumi Kumagai have come a long way to get lost. After a four-hour bullet-train ride from Hiroshima, the teenagers are lurking amid the neon signs of a seedy Tokyo alley, seeking a transgressive experience that will rip open the blandness of their days and allow them to escape, at least for a few hours, their part-time jobs, trade-school classes and cramped apartments. The vehicle they believe will help them achieve this temporary expansion of their consciousness: majikku masshurumu?magic mushrooms?shriveled bits of psilocybin-filled fungi that will first make them a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo Takes a Trip | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

Saving--or sacrificing--Japan's banks has become a litmus test. Obuchi's rescue plan envisions a "bridge bank" that would consolidate ailing institutions and protect healthy depositors without causing any outright failures. That means "the government will not cure the most crucial wounds," complains Hiroshi Kumagai, a leading member of the opposition. Kumagai wants to close bleeders like the Long Term Credit Bank, which holds more than $350 billion in international derivatives contracts. Institutions worldwide are party to those contracts, so the bitter medicine of a closing would not be Japan's alone to swallow. Whatever Obuchi does, most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frank Gibney Jr. | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

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