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...liberalize--perhaps by sharing revenue to add competitive balance--there's no reason it can't recapture Japan. After all, there are some aspects of the Japanese game that the U.S. will never be able to beat. "Seibu Lions fans are known for being very well-mannered," says Mitsuko Nakanomi, 67, a Lions supporter for more than five decades. "And we have a very clean stadium." Good luck finding that in Boston, Dice...
...returned to start a newspaper-distribution business in Soma, about four hours north of Tokyo. He retired in 1980, and lives in a comfortable house on a small pension in Iwaki, a pleasant seaside town that used to bustle with small electronics factories. Otake and his wife Mitsuko used to make an extra $900 a month by working a few hours a day at home assembling small parts for CD changers...
...great pleasures of this year's Mozart bicentennial will be Mitsuko Uchida's performances of the composer's 18 piano sonatas in a series of five recitals at New York City's Alice Tully Hall between now and April 21. She will also perform some of the sonatas in other cities, including Philadelphia, Toronto, Washington and Pittsburgh. Uchida, 42, plays her specialty with a remarkable combination of energy and tenderness, a considerable rhythmic freedom and a lovely tone. This spring Philips Classics is rereleasing her recordings of these sonatas, along with a splendid new recording of Mozart's piano concerti...
...instead of the familiar Kochel list of 626. The complete presentation will enable a sufficiently dogged listener to sample such obscure efforts as the unfinished opera L'Oca del Cairo. And the quality of performances should be extremely high -- Itzhak Perlman and Daniel Barenboim playing violin sonatas, for example; Mitsuko Uchida all the piano sonatas; both the Juilliard and Tokyo quartets on hand for chamber music...
...fourth woe has descended: four weeks after he took office, the disrobing of Prime Minister Sousuke Uno's personal life has become a source of embarrassment. Last month the Sunday Mainichi magazine published memoirs of Mitsuko Nakanishi, a 40-year-old geisha, who claimed Uno paid her $21,000 during a five-month affair in 1985-86. In Japan, where the rich and famous are commonly assumed to have affairs, the revelation smoldered slowly. Even the geisha's TV appearance attracted little coverage...