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...consisted of a single store the size of a one-car garage in the backstreets of Tokyo's trendy Harajuku area. Today, it's a fashion empire stretching from Hokkaido to Kyushu. Takahashi has won just about every fashion award Japan can offer (last year he captured the prestigious Mainichi prize normally reserved for establishment figures like Issey Miyake and Junya Watanabe). Across the country, his fans faithfully line up outside his 31 boutiques, eager for the opportunity to buy a $2,500 dress or a $30 pair of socks. But to maintain his momentum, Takahashi must branch out into...
...interested, but such denials are routine and don't necessarily mean much. In Japan, it's always better to be asked to serve than to aggressively go after the top job. "Nonaka has what a traditional leader requires," says Shigetada Kishii, a political writer for the Mainichi group of newspapers. "In the Japanese politics of wa (harmony), a leader's role is as a coordinator...
...fourth woe has descended: four weeks after he took office, the disrobing of Prime Minister Sousuke Uno's personal life has become a source of embarrassment. Last month the Sunday Mainichi magazine published memoirs of Mitsuko Nakanishi, a 40-year-old geisha, who claimed Uno paid her $21,000 during a five-month affair in 1985-86. In Japan, where the rich and famous are commonly assumed to have affairs, the revelation smoldered slowly. Even the geisha's TV appearance attracted little coverage...
...Recruit influence-peddling scandal was that he was widely regarded as Mr. Clean. Last week that reputation was impugned from an unexpected quarter: a former geisha who claimed to have been his lover. SCOOP: A SCANDAL INVOLVING PRIME MINISTER UNO, shrieked a headline in the weekly magazine Sunday Mainichi. In an interview, the 40-year-old, otherwise unidentified former geisha said Uno paid her about $21,000 during a five-month affair that began in October 1985. She portrayed Uno as bullying and self-aggrandizing...
Traditionally, a public servant's private life is ignored in Japan, but the Sunday Mainichi's editor in chief, Shuntaro Torigoe, argued that "the time has come to question Japanese politicians' illicit relations with women." Questioned by legislators, Uno said, "I'd rather refrain from commenting on such matters in public...