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...suspect loan, worth $960,000, came from the Sagawa Kyubin trucking company. Hosokawa claims that he repaid the money, but critics say he kept it to fund his campaign to become governor of Kumamoto prefecture the following year. When pressed, the Prime Minister first asserted that he used the cash to purchase an apartment in Tokyo and to repair the roofed gate and plaster wall of an ancestral home. Opposition legislators charge that he bought the apartment before he received the loan. They tracked down the construction workers and determined that they charged only $67,000 for the repair...
Popularity may be the most extreme thing about the unassuming former governor of southern Kumamoto prefecture, who has become Japan's most admired Prime Minister ever. The first thing Japanese seem to like is his aristocratic lineage, which dates back 18 generations. The Hosokawa clan ruled southwestern Japan from the 16th to the mid-19th century and produced important historical figures, including the father and son Yusai (1534-1610) and Tadaoki (1563-1646), who prospered under all three military rulers who unified Japan. The new Prime Minister "makes people feel history," says essayist Yoshimi Ishikawa. "Everyone can participate in discussions...
From the sea surrounding Puget Sound comes a bounty of oysters such as Hamma Hamma, Penn Cove, Willapa Bay, Kumamoto, Shoalwater Bay and Olympia. Some varieties will be served raw with a raspberry peppercorn mignonette sauce -- a specialty at Fullers. At the sparkling Cafe Sport, Tom Douglas, 29, sautes oysters with chili spices and turns out fluffy Dungeness crab cakes and seductive broiled Japanese Kasu cod with an "ocean salad" of marinated seaweed...
Takmotsu Nishiyama Kumamoto, Japan...
...Kumamoto City," answered the Japanese...