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...Iceland in their camp nonetheless, Japan and its supporters "corrected" the record on subsequent votes. And for the 14th year in a row, Japan failed to win approval for the killing of 50 minke whales by four traditional whaling ports along its Pacific coast. Just before the conference opened, Masayuki Komatsu, a top Fisheries Agency official and one of the Japanese delegation's alternate IWC commissioners, termed the small, speedy minke "the cockroach of the oceans." Komatsu also stirred controversy by voicing what environmental campaigners had long asserted - that Japan uses international aid to "get understanding" in developing nations...
...aging stars. Never has an American of top status been guilty of defection - and certainly no one like Ichiro who, with an exotic foot-in-the-air stance, has won an unprecedented seven-straight batting titles.) "It's a disaster in the making," says novelist and baseball writer Masayuki Tamaki. "Japan is losing all its heroes...
...going to get irritable," one of them predicts. Beat shows up right on time. He quickly changes into a sweater, introduces himself to the photographer and carefully looks over the cameras and the light meters and the flashes. Even here, he is in charge. "You know," says Masayuki Mori, the producer of his films, who is watching the shoot, "he doesn't really write his own books." Beat's impatience is legendary; he can't slow down long enough to put pen to paper. Mori describes his writing process as something akin to dictation...
...opportunity to boost morale--and upped the advertising budget. "I felt if we could kick the other studios' asses after they had told everybody in town that we were going to get murdered, that would be a major message and create a sense of empowerment here," he says. Masayuki Nozoe, Tokyo's man on the Sony campus, says Calley discussed the increase in spending with him, admonishing "This is the last chance for you [Sony] and the first chance...
...right, it's summer. You want a foreign-language film that doesn't play like a final exam in Comparative Cultures. So try Shall We Dance?, which Miramax Films has cannily positioned as successor to its easygoing humanist hits Like Water for Chocolate and Il Postino. Masayuki Suo's romantic comedy, the winner of 13 Japanese Academy Awards, at times teeters dangerously close to the excesses of another Miramax crowd pleaser, Strictly Ballroom. The film has such a weakness for the easy incongruity (short men dancing with tall women--isn't that hilarious?) that it could almost be Australian...