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...house, and the DPJ, whose members won a surprise majority in the upper house in elections last July. With Fukui's departure looming, politicians have been unable to reach agreement on a successor, with some DPJ lawmakers saying they prefer former deputy Central Bank governor Yutaka Yamaguchi. Business leader Mikio Wakatsuki, chairman of AXA Life Insurance of Japan, told reporters this week that it was "a national disgrace that this issue remains unresolved...
...errors….Harvard sophomore Max Warren did not allow an earned run in two innings of relief after following junior Jason Brown, who struggled with his control….The start of the game was delayed as Rondo, the home plate umpire, bizarrely forced B.C. third base coach Mikio Aoki to remove his jacket, a rule demanding team uniformity that is rarely enforced.—Staff writer Alex McPhillips can be reached at rmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...Mikio Naruse: A Centennial Tribute
Although no less eminent than Yasujiro Ozu or Akira Kurosawa in the canon of Japanese cinema, director Mikio Naruse has remained largely unknown to mainstream Western audiences...
Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is used to making other politicians unhappy. But even he seemed shaken when his longtime supporter Mikio Aoki took the floor of the Diet last Tuesday and added his voice to the growing dissension over the Prime Minister's latest round of banking reform proposals. In a withering attack, he accused Koizumi's new finance chief Heizo Takenaka of being a loose cannon, an unelected and unaccountable radical operating outside the system. And he finished with a direct salvo against the man he used to defend, telling Koizumi, "What is lacking most is leadership...