Word: kyushu
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...collar. The rakish look of the tall, angular 59-year-old enhances his image as an iconoclast, a romantic lead actor storming the stage of Japan's crusty political establishment. As Toshiaki Okazaki, a 59-year-old whale-meat vendor, said while Koizumi campaigned near his stall in Kita-Kyushu recently: "So many of them have deceived us. At least Koizumi brings new blood...
...single skill, and one very prized in Japan: rote memory. You learn the hand motions for each song, in order. You can be a leader or, more likely, a follower. The moves are dictated by those magazines and parapara videos, which means that the dance going on in Kyushu is the same as that in Hokkaido. It sounds incredibly easy except for this final fact: there are 1,600 songs to memorize...
Crime is the one thing Japan was always happy to admit was best made in America. But a teen killing spree is starting to give the lie to the idea that Japan is preternaturally immune from violence. Last week a 15-year-old boy on southern Japan's Kyushu Island slipped into a neighbor's house after dark and attacked six slumbering family members with a knife one by one, killing three. "Oh, no, not again," said Mikiko Takahashi, 46, the mother of two boys. "Our society must be out of order...