Word: mihara
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...dolphins in 2006 and 10,218 in 2007. But even those figures are well below the prefecture's legal limits, and Taiji fishermen also hunted about half their limit in 2006 and 2007, averaging about 1,430 dolphins a year. In response to The Cove, town-council chief Katsutoshi Mihara told the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, "I don't understand their way of pushing their own values...
...Remarried Terryene Mihara in 1995; they have four children...
Given the country's appetite for whale, it's not surprising that the new mercury studies have divided the tight-knit community of Taiji. "If whaling disappears, our town disappears," says Katsutoshi Mihara, the affable town-council chief. He casts doubt on the accuracy of the mercury tests, which were commissioned by Ryono and another Taiji assemblyman after rumors circulated that locally caught pilot-whale meat might be tainted. "Look at me," says Mihara, 69. "I'm made of whale, head to toe, and I'm fine...
...campaign's goal is not without precedent. Previous suicide magnets - the Empire State Building, Sydney Harbor Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, and the Mt. Mihara volcano in Japan - have all installed barriers, resulting in dramatic reductions, in some cases to zero, in the number of desperate people who jump...
...Nevertheless, Mihara may eschew the cartoon soles for his next Puma collection. Even though the concept is popular, the 31-year-old designer knows it may not last beyond one season. Japanese fashion's ephemeral nature will force him to come up with something new?yet again. Luckily, Mihara says his consumers seem ever willing to experiment, an easy assimilation that mirrors his homeland's historic ability to import technology and imbue it with a uniquely Japanese aesthetic. "Every day, we reinvent ourselves," says Mihara. "It's exciting to think about what we may become tomorrow...