Word: makoto
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...larger controversies that almost forced the Games out of Nagano concerned downhill skiing. This dispute, resolved last December, dragged on for five years, creating obviously less-than-friendly relations between the Nagano Organizing Committee (NAOC) and the International Ski Federation (FIS). In brief, the NAOC, headed by Makoto Kobayashi, had been strongly opposed to a bid by the FIS to raise the start of the downhill event in Nagano by 120 meters to 1,800 meters. According to CNN, Kobayashi stated that doing so would "break environmental laws by putting it into a national park which covers part...
...attack. Police are also eager to know if Aum was behind last month's attempted assassination of Tokyo police chief Takaji Kunimatsu and the disappearance in 1989 of a lawyer who was investigating Aum, along with his wife and infant son. Asahara continues to insist he is innocent. Makoto Endo, a lawyer who has visited him in jail and who represents another arrested cult member, says Asahara is distraught because no attorney wants to take his case. When Endo refused because he didn't feel Asahara was "150% innocent," the man who claims to be a living Buddha asked, "What...
...custody today,Aum Shinrikyo cult leader Shoko Asaharadenied any responsibility in the sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subways. In a statement through lawyer Makoto Endo, the cult leader said "Absolutely no one from Aum spread sarin." Police interrogators report that the guru spoke to them on most subjects, but would complain of a liver ailment whenever asked about theMar. 20 attackand would not answer questions. Including Asahara, 21 sect members are jailed in connection with the attack. Police saythey will charge the sect leader with murder and attempted murder, but no formal charges have been filed. Authorities can hold...
...translate directly into change where the rest of the world is concerned. Rearranging seats in the lower house of the Diet will lead only slowly, if at all, to new directions in the country's economic policies and social priorities. "I will believe in this talk of reform," says Makoto Sakata, a prominent Tokyo business writer, "when parties take up really fundamental issues like karoshi ((death from overwork)) and unpaid overtime...