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...when she brought her girls on his TV program, and they quickly grew close. "When we met," she says, "it was like we'd known each other for 30 years." When Kitano's mother died that year, Saito decided he needed a little adoption. "She adores Takeshi," says Masayuki Mori, president of Kitano's production company and a producer of the film. "When Takeshi's mother died, she said, 'Oh well, now I am his mother...
...recent diet-pill-related deaths in Japan touched off a round of criticism directed at the country's health officials, who drew fire for being slow to respond when people started getting sick. "Sometimes I wonder how many people had to die before anyone did anything," says Dr. Masayuki Adachi of Keio University Hospital in Tokyo. The 31-year-old doctor alerted the government in late April when two of his patients, both women, suffered liver failure after taking Chinese diet pills. "I couldn't prove a definitive connection," he says, "but I knew these drugs were very popular, that...
...Japanese business leaders said they plan to cut wages this year. Wide-eyed, unshaven men walk the subways begging for money. HELP ME, the signs around their necks read, RESTRUCTURED. That's Japan's euphemism for "fired." "We hope this is the bottom, but really, who knows?" sighs Masayuki Watanabe, 48, a meat wholesaler who closed his business three months ago when rumors of mad-cow disease chased away so many customers that it wasn't worth battling the steady increase in local taxes and other expenses...
...past it doesn't have the money - or will - to help new businesses get off the drawing board. For the first time since the end of WW II, Japan is facing the concept of personal and corporate obsolescence. "We hope this is the bottom, but who really knows?" asks Masayuki Watanabe, a 48-year-old meat wholesaler who gave up his faltering business three months ago (and with it a $70,000 annual income) and now peddles $5 lunch boxes in Tokyo's depressed financial district. "We have no choice but to start over." Even, it seems, if that means...
...danger too: that Japan's complacent public will go along with some muddle-through plan, and no creative destruction will take place. "I've heard of one woman closing her account and then renting a safe at the same bank and stuffing her cash in there," says financial planner Masayuki Kihira. "But that's a rare example." Eighty-one-year-old Sachi Matsuyama of Tokyo recently closed her account, but with no particular urgency. "Interest rates were so low, there was no reason to keep my money there," she says. " I just have enough saved to pay for my funeral...