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...Almost all the dolphins caught in Japan are sold for meat near the towns where they're caught, and only 1% - a few dozen - are sold live to aquariums. Masashi Nishimura, manager of the Japan Fisheries Association's international section, who also works with environmental issues, says most Japanese people don't know much about the dolphin hunts. "I don't think it's a big topic here," he says. "As long as [their killing] is humane, dolphins are like other animals to us." The most humane technique, according to Nishimura, would be to use high-tech machines to minimize...
Graphic novels--long comic books for grownups--have always had mostly cult appeal. Last year's most successful, the 13th volume in a Japanese manga adventure series--Naruto, by Masashi Kishimoto--sold 80,000 copies, far short of 2007's hottest novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, which sold more than 1.5 million copies. The point of the comics was largely their transgressiveness. "They're the last pirate medium," says Millar, a Scottish writer who consults for Marvel Comics on more mainstream fare, like Iron Man. "They're the last medium for a mass audience where...
...might have been dismissed with a derisory snort. But last year saw the launch of two upscale glossies now duking it out for market share-Oceans and FQ. "The most frequent comment fathers make is, 'I've been waiting for a magazine like this,'" says FQ's advertising manager, Masashi Nakatomi. "Wives will say, 'My husband has become more aware after reading it.'" Both magazines feature celebrity fathers. FQ has even had Johnny Depp on its cover-all part of an unlikely effort to equate dads with cool...
...Japan, the Shenzhou V launch was met with disbelief and anxiety that continues to reverberate among scientific and political circles. "We were surprised," says Masashi Okada, a launch-systems engineer at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the country's equivalent of NASA. "Obviously we knew they were working toward it, but they achieved manned flight very quickly." Japan's own space program had been in decline for years, hobbled by a habit of following the U.S.'s lead and by domestic regulatory barriers that bar programs with potential military applications. Between 1999 and 2004, the space program's budget...
...police arrested 48 suspects in connection with the sabotage, including Masashi Kamata, 32, the reputed leader of Chukaku-ha, or Middle Core Faction, an ultraleftist group that organized violent anti-U.S. demonstrations in the '60s. In recent years it has made headlines with its attacks on the new international airport at Narita...