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...poll, Abe's approval ratings were scraping 30%, and many voters said they wanted to send Abe and the LDP a clear message. "Although the Upper House elections are not the election of the ruling party, I want Abe to take it as a defeat and resign," says Masamichi Watanabe, 23, of Wako city, outside Tokyo...
...Even if they aren't punching the clock, however, many Japanese seniors find alternative ways to contribute. Salaryman Masamichi Hagiwara wasn't ready to become a "window-sitter" when he reached his company's mandatory retirement age of 57. "I was still able to work every day," says Hagiwara, who spent 30 years developing better feed for fish farming. So he enlisted with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which sent him for a two-year stint to teach fish farming in the mountains of Honduras. When that was finished, he re-upped for a tour in Malaysia and then...
...article "Playing in Place" we mistakenly said that interior designer Masamichi Katayama produced 15 Bape shops in Tokyo, Osaka and London. Katayama has designed 27 Bape-related shops in the three cities plus others. We regret the errors...
...than the U.S. ($10 billion vs. $9.2 billion). Japan has also begun to recycle some of its growing financial reserves throughout the developing world: at the 1987 Venice summit of industrialized nations, Tokyo pledged $20 billion in loans and other plans for helping developing nations plagued by debt. Says Masamichi Hanabusa, director- general of the Economic Cooperation Bureau in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "Since our national capability has increased, we have come to look on our aid program as our contribution to international society...
...Japan's brilliant, courtly central banker, Governor Masamichi Yamagiwa of the Bank of Japan, likes to relax by playing go-a, Japanese war game in which he astounds opponents with his daring, unbankerlike moves. But in recent weeks, torn between the need to cool off Japan's overheated boom (TIME, Sept. 8) and Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda's fear that any belt-tightening would hurt him politically, Yamagiwa, 60, has shown uncharacteristic indecision. Last week he finally hiked Japan's bank rate from 6.935% to 7.3%, the highest of any industrialized nation. Tighter money, Yamagiwa hopes...