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...FASTING ARINA, JAPAN This weight-loss resort, tel: (81-26) 267 7608, is located in Nagano, and mountain scenery is all you're likely to feast on. Resort president Takeo Hayashi says visitors "do nothing"?except let their organs get some well-earned rest...
Judo means "the gentle way" in Japanese, but there's nothing gentle about Kosei Inoue as he grapples with a teammate at an Olympic training camp near Nagano in Japan. The stuffy gymnasium reverberates with the drum roll of bodies slamming off the mats as Inoue, an Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion, grips his sparring partner, a baby-faced giant considerably larger than the 100-kg Inoue. The pair crashes together, then ricochets in a flailing knot off the mats and out of bounds, nearly crushing a Time reporter with a total of more than...
...harm. I'm not in favor of human cloning, but we must be prepared for the risks of advances in this technology. I'm afraid that we will never be able to get the benefits of human embryos without having cloned humans walking down the street. Ryuichi Sato Nagano, Japan...
Ruggiero hasn’t always been the team sage; she’s seen it from both sides. At 18 years old, she was the youngest member of the 1998 Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. women’s hockey team in Nagano, Japan...
...economy may be stuttering but bargoers are still eager to spend their yen on a pint of jibiiru, or craft beer, from one of the country's 300 or so microbreweries. And we're not just talking about local favorites; the popular Yona Yona Ale from Yoho Brewing in Nagano and Hitachino Nest Beer of Kiuchi Brewery have both won awards at international beer competitions. Microbrew aficionado Yasuhiro Tani got hooked while living in Texas; now the 46-year-old accountant only buys jibiiru, often over the Internet. "Regular beer is generally popular but banal," he says. "Craft beer...