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...KILLED. Mitsuhiro Morita, 35, Japanese crab fisherman, after a Russian patrol boat opened fire on his vessel in disputed waters northeast of the Japanese island of Hokkaido; in the Sea of Okhotsk. Russian officials claimed the ship's captain had illegally crossed into Russian territory, while Japan called the act "unacceptable" and demanded immediate compensation and the release of the vessel's remaining crew, who are being held by Russian authorities. The shooting is rooted in a 150-year-old row over the strategic, resource-rich Kuril Islands, which are claimed by both countries...
DIED. PAT MORITA, 73, actor nominated for an Academy Award for his quietly wise, wry Mr. Miyagi, the martial-arts mentor in 1984's The Karate Kid and its three sequels; of natural causes; in Las Vegas. Born in California to migrant fruit-pickers, Morita lived in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. At 30, the aspiring comic gave up his day job to focus on acting, first winning national fame as Arnold, owner of the restaurant favored by Fonzie and friends in the sitcom Happy Days...
...DIED. PAT MORITA, 73, actor nominated for an Academy Award for his wise, wry Mr. Miyagi, the martial-arts mentor in 1984's The Karate Kid and its three sequels; in Las Vegas. Born in California to migrant fruit-pickers, Morita lived with his family in a U.S. internment camp for Japanese during World War II. The aspiring comic entered show business at 30 and first won national fame as Arnold, manager of the teen hangout in the 1970s-'80s sitcom Happy Days...
...week and is all but guaranteed to pass. His plans beyond that are hazy. Koizumi has promised to step down when his term as party president (and thus Prime Minister) expires in September 2006. But "one year is not enough to implement long-term policies," says political commentator Minoru Morita?meaning that other goals Koizumi once espoused, such as pension reform and slashing Japan's fiscal deficit, could be left on the shelf. And Koizumi's mandate is still fragile. Although the election aligned the LDP on postal reform, the party is far from united on other issues. A survey...
...width of that in VCRs, which are now in nearly a fifth of American homes, in a unit about the size of an audiotape cassette. It will permit more compact playback and recording systems, with quality that is "as good as the Beta format," says Sony Deputy President Masaaki Morita, brother of the company's chairman, Akio...