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...AGING 114 Age, in years, of Edna Parker, of Shelby County, Indiana - believed to be the world's oldest woman after Yone Minagawa, also 114, died Aug. 13 in Fukuoka, Japan 77.9 Average life expectancy of Americans, 42nd in the world, down from 11th 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

...world's oldest living person, Yone Minagawa, below, a Japanese woman who gained the honor when the previous record holder died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Feb. 12, 2007 | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...impulse of a forceful individual but by a process of consensus. The process can be timeconsuming, but not always. One result is that fads are epidemic. Paris fashions and the latest rock beats reach Tokyo almost as quickly as they reach New York. The current singing sensation is Osamu Minagawa, a Tokyo six-year-old whose recording of something called Kuro Neko No Tango (Black Cat Tango) has sold 2,000.000 records, mostly on the basis of his imitation of a mewing cat. Baseball has been booming since Babe Ruth's visit 35 years ago, but now there are also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Toward the Japanese Century | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

Whatever the specifics, Madame Ky was only one of the tens of thousands of Asian women who flock every year to plastic surgeons to make themselves "more charming" to their husbands and boy friends-or even to get ahead in the business world. "These days," says Dr. Jiro Minagawa, who heads Tokyo's plush Minagawa Cosmetic Clinic, "girls come in and go out much as they go to the beauty salon to have their hair done." Dr. Pham Ba Vien, dean of Saigon's practitioners of chirurgie esthétique, agrees. "Show a woman something different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: New Angles | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

Speaking of the trial-by-jury system, M. Minagawa said: "Our first impression of the system is that cases cannot be tried as quickly before a jury as when a judge is the only one before whom the facts are placed. Then, too, the emotional appeal of the case is emphasized much more than we are accustomed to seeing. However, we sat through several cases in San Francisco, and in each instance we agreed among ourselves that the juries' verdicts were the same as ours would have been, if any one of us were acting as judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Japanese Commission | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

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