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...interests and energy levels can be difficult at best. Sometimes it's a matter of pure luck. Kelly Stratman's parents were in Tokyo for a week, and to keep them entertained, she and her husband, Stephen, transformed themselves into tour-guide extraordinaires. They planned visits to the Meiji Shrine, Kamakura's Great Buddha and the Yokohama waterfront, rented a car for an overnight trip to the Izu peninsula, and even scheduled a New Year's Day viewing of the Emperor at his palace...
...hard, then, to imagine how a band of discontented Iraqis might target, say, an Asian medic or aid worker as a substitute for an American soldier. "The kidnapping [of the Japanese] is an attack on the U.S.-led coalition," says Chiharu Takenaka, a professor of international politics at Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama. "They know that America is too strong for them to deal with, so they're cutting off the weakest link...
...tortured by nightmares about his participation in an attack on a neutral Cheyenne village during the American Civil War. Reduced to drunkenly demonstrating his riflery skills at carnivals along the West Coast, Algren reluctanctly accepts an offer to train a modernizing Japanese army during the sweeping changes of the Meiji Renaissance. Soon after arriving in Tokyo, Algren is captured in battle by the rebel Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe), a fierce but predictably wise warrior committed to preserving the bushido, or samurai code of honor...
...Japanese label Paper Denim Cloth, he joined the Signet, took up sherry and became a quintessential metrosexual garbed in the finest vintage tweed. Best known in the arts community for a daring adaptation of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost set in Meiji restoration Japan and staged in the Quincy Grille—which he successfully petitioned to count for his joint VES-Literature degree—he aspires to a Polanski-cum-Kurosawa career trajectory. His weblog, which features translations of lesser-known Proust and original analysis of the Harvard Film Archive?...
Asian art had a foothold in the U.S. as early as the 18th century, when blue and white Chinese porcelain was a mark of wealth and taste in households, like Thomas Jefferson's, that could afford it. Commodore Matthew Perry's arrival in Tokyo Bay in 1853, which forced Meiji Japan to open itself to Western influence, led to a concurrent craze in Europe and the U.S. for all things Japanese. By the turn of the century Ernest Fenollosa and William Sturgis Bigelow, learned Bostonians infatuated with Japan, were assembling the great collections of furniture, scrollwork, carvings and prints that...