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...SILVER CYLINDRICAL EDIFICE OF Shibuya 109 (Ichi-maru-kyu in Japanese) shines like a beacon to Japan's teen fashionistas, who journey here every day like the faithful to a holy site. An eight-story, freewheeling, techno-pumping madhouse of 110 boutiques selling clothing, shoes and accessories, Maru Kyu, as it's popularly known, is the one-stop fashion mecca for Tokyo's high-school-girl hipsters, who not only pump billions into Japan's economy each year but also drive trends in hemlines, hair color and heel height from Singapore to Shanghai and beyond. In less than a decade...
Tsutsumi says his role is to ensure that the right designers find the right consumers at the right time. When it works, fashion phenomena are born, as in 1996, when the stylist for pop-music sensation Namie Amuro picked up some miniskirts, white platform boots and long coats in Maru Kyu's boutiques. Before long, Amuro's devotees were flocking to 109 to snap up the signature totems of what became known as the Amuler Boom...
...surprised at 109's staying power, given the ephemeral nature of the business. "Our market is so fickle," he says. "They get tired of things very quickly." That means he is always on the lookout for the next hot designers to make sure they get their start in Maru Kyu--because when Japan's teen fashionistas "jump on something new," he says, "it can be explosive." --By Jim Frederick. With reporting by Michiko Toyama/Tokyo
...Sinking Feeling U.S. submarine, the Greeneville, struck and sank the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing boat, off the Hawaiian coast on Feb. 9. Nine Japanese, including four teenage students, died in what amounted to a joyride for the sub, complete with maneuvers conducted for civilians who had donated money to the Navy. The Japanese public was further outraged when the sub's commander, though reprimanded, was not court-martialed. The Navy, after admitting responsibility, is now negotiating compensation with the families of the dead...
...Japanese woman on Okinawa by a U.S. serviceman once again sparked an outcry against the continued presence of 47,000 U.S. troops in the country. Further, for many Japanese citizens, Pearl Harbor recalls not the surprise attack of a half-century ago but the accidental sinking of the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing trawler, by a U.S. Navy submarine earlier this year. News accounts of the film's U.S. premiere in Pearl Harbor focused on the proximity of the Navy carrier, on which the celebrations were held, to the spot where the Japanese boat was sunk. "I can't imagine...