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...house next summer, and Ozawa has few equals as a campaigner. He has been courting politicians in the countryside, where the LDP's stranglehold on power has been eroded by Koizumi's reforms. "We have a great chance to challenge the LDP, especially in the rural areas," says Takeaki Matsumoto, the DPJ's policy chair. Much of Abe's current popularity is a legacy from Koizumi, and if the LDP were to have a disastrous result in the upper-house campaign, many would blame its new leader. "Abe's political life could be very short," says Nobuyuki Idei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Abe Enigma | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...Swiss Alps, with the help of a robotic power suit named HAL (for Hybrid Assistive Limb, not to be confused with the homicidal HAL 9000 computer in 2001). Starting at 3,800 m, he hitched a ride up the mountain on the back of his friend, climber Takeshi Matsumoto, who wore the computerized exoskeleton built by Japanese tech firm Cyberdyne (not to be confused with the fictional Cyberdyne Systems, which created the killer robots of the Terminator movies). The suit mimics a user's motions by detecting the bioelectrical nerve signals that control muscles, and its servo-motors can nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Small Step for Robotkind | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

...held to be true. The benefit everyone gains from the Livedoor shock is the awareness that the public needs to have a higher level of financial literacy. Livedoor shareholders have learned a costly yet important lesson: it's always good to know exactly what you're paying for. Jo Matsumoto Fujisawa, Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...held to be true. The benefit everyone gains from the Livedoor shock is the awareness that the public needs to have a higher level of financial literacy. Livedoor shareholders have learned a costly yet important lesson: it's always good to know exactly what you're paying for. Jo Matsumoto Fujisawa, Japan Cowboys in Love The critical acclaim received by the movie Brokeback Mountain is well deserved [Jan. 30]. It takes a courageous filmmaker to tackle the subject of a love affair between two men. Like many, I was awed by the depth of the movie and its characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barriers for German Women | 2/16/2006 | See Source »

...appeal, Aum Shinrikyo drew tens of thousands of followers during the 1990s, and even ran political candidates in national elections. Aum's godhead was its founder, Asahara, an intelligent misfit who claimed he could levitate and who appeared regularly on TV talk shows. Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, preached distorted versions of Buddhism and Hinduism steeped in apocalyptic theology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cult Shock | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

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