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...ruling Liberal Democratic Party draws important support from organizations that downplay or deny Japanese use of chemical and biological weapons in China during the war. And there are deniers in the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, too: Jin Matsubara, a Democratic parliamentarian known for denying the killing of Chinese civilians by the Japanese Imperial Army in Nanjing in 1937-1938, recently used his speaking time at a Diet session dedicated to discussing the weapons to question their very existence...
...What Japanese horror master Hideo Nakata did for TV sets in his 1998 blockbuster The Ring, he does for drippy faucets in his latest film Dark Water, a tale of urban anxiety, domestic agony and spookily bad plumbing. Stressed-out single mother Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) and her five-year-old daughter, Ikuko (Rio Kanno) move into an apartment building with a serious humidity problem and a demonic elevator on loan from Poltergeist. They stick around even after a sinister water stain begins expanding on the ceiling and they learn that their building was once inhabited by a young girl...
...antitrust law: if the player does not like the U.S. team negotiating the deal, his only recourse is to stay in Japan for another year. Nomo's American-based agent Don Nomura called it a "slave auction." The union, true to form, failed to file suit. Explained Toru Matsubara, secretary-general of the Japanese Baseball Players Association: "Trials last forever here." Japan was free to sell off its best talent. And there was little the fan could do. As a disgusted Tamaki creatively put it, "It makes me want to become a sports terrorist...
Thousands of Japanese descended on Fuji for "rallies against hedoro" which a crusading local librarian called "the starting point of a death march of our civilization." Fuji's fishing boats flew bright banners that blazed messages of added disgust. Yukio Matsubara, a fishing association official, bluntly defined the root problem: "Hell bent on expanding our economic house, we have simply forgotten the need for building an honorable toilet...
...Wellesley halfway point, Canadian Ronald Wallingford took a temporary lead, but Shigematsu, Shishidok, Nakao, Funasako, and Matsubara were now right behind. The Japanese moved on to finish in exactly that order. Wallingford faded back to eleventh, dropping be hind Ostbye at tenth, Valle at ninth; Eino Oksanen, a past winner from Finland, at eighth; and Ralph Buschmann, the leading American in the race, at seventh...
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