Word: minami
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...Yoshio Saito believes he has an answer: In 1976, Saito founded the Minami Uonuma Medical and Welfare Center an hour and a half north of Tokyo, and he's run it ever since. Saito's center includes the Yairo-en nursing home and a hospital, but his aim is to keep seniors out of both facilities for as long as possible by providing community care that allows the elderly to continue living in their own homes as long as possible. While they're still relatively healthy, nearby seniors can come to the hospital for day-care and checkups; when they...
...Today, the relatively isolated and snowbound Minami Uonuma City is old and emptying out; the cavernous bullet train station is literally empty on the day I visit. The hospital stopped offering childbirth services in 2002, and the local economy is on life support. "The government's finances are deficit-ridden," says Saito. "We're under great pressure to control spending...
...Minami Uonuma City continues to age, Saito's programs may be overwhelmed by demand. His hospital is already $1.2 million in the red, and while the Yairo-en nursing home actually makes money, it's well overbooked, with more people on the waiting list than in the superbly equipped home. The national government has been squeezing health-care subsidies, and Saito worries fears the consequences of millions of Japanese baby boomers reaching retirement age this year. "People like us in the outlying areas are suffering now," he says. "But this will be a major problem in the big cities soon...
...been an open-mic night, but there was nothing amateurish about it—these people knew what they were doing. The open-mics have no cover—if you’re broke and want to see some talented part-timers you should check it out. Masaki Minami, a 25-year-old Berklee student, was onstage when The Hotspot walked in. When he really got tearing on his guitar, his face took on a maniacal expression he’d shoot at his bandmates. Offstage, however, he transformed from a funky blues player back to a reserved, quiet...
...yaakoo [an amiable way of saying yakuza]," the 42-year-old publisher laughs. We are sitting at Little More's headquarters in Tokyo's trendy and chic Minami Aoyama neighborhood, not far from the cozy gallery he opened four years ago to exhibit the paintings of cutting-edge actor Tadanobu Asano. "I like this outfit, and I don't want to change for anyone. I realize it's unusual, but I like to break the rules," Takei says in his thick Osaka dialect...