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Hoax is such a flimsy word, far too feeble to describe the wickedness of which the Heenes, Richard and Mayumi, now stand accused. Theirs was sleight of hand for the soul: now we see it, now we don't; now we watch in horror and fear for their child's life, a 6-year-old boy, frightened, cold, lost in the clouds; now we learn he was up in the garage attic with snacks, while Mom and Dad auditioned for their 15 minutes of fame...
...levels could be marketed to young people who don't usually read. "Little More doesn't spend any money on the look or the binding of the book at all. They spend money only on the contents, and for the contents they spend as much as they can," says Mayumi Sato, a buyer for Shibuya's Parco Book Center. "They don't publish based on marketing data; they go by what they personally like," says Shingo Wakagi, a photographer whose book Young Tree was published by Little More...
...Polite controversy is just about the highest emotion generated by the royal family. They don't inspire wrath; nor do they elicit much warmth. "They live in a different world," says 25-year-old housewife Mayumi Masuoka. "How could this possibly have any significant impact?" If they're off the radar screens of most Japanese, that's intentional. The royals have studiously avoided the spotlight and maintained a deliberate distance ever since the end of World War II. They aren't jet-setting royals who play on the beaches of the Riviera or date dashing polo players. They...
Iroaki Doi and Mayumi Kumagai have come a long way to get lost. After a four-hour bullet-train ride from Hiroshima, the teenagers are lurking amid the neon signs of a seedy Tokyo alley, seeking a transgressive experience that will rip open the blandness of their days and allow them to escape, at least for a few hours, their part-time jobs, trade-school classes and cramped apartments. The vehicle they believe will help them achieve this temporary expansion of their consciousness: majikku masshurumu?magic mushrooms?shriveled bits of psilocybin-filled fungi that will first make them a little...
...OKINAWAN, I WAS OUTRAGED BY the rape of the young Okinawan girl by American servicemen. The incident only symbolizes the immense injustice the Okinawans have suffered over the years by both the Japanese and the American governments. MAYUMI SHINJO New York City