Word: nakajima
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First Jordan, then Gretzky, now (maybe) Nakajima. HIROFUMI NAKAJIMA of Kofu, Japan, the undisputed world hot dog-eating champion, may not return to Coney Island July 4 to try to win the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest for a third time. The 131-lb. "Black Hole of Kofu" first won the competition in 1997, when he defeated 360-lb. Ed ("The Animal") Krachie of New York City by downing 24 1/2 dogs (plus buns). "At first they booed me, probably because I am a skinny little man," says Nakajima, who soon became a crowd favorite. A Nathan...
Deng's commercial revolution is dangerously incomplete. "China is like a movie set," says Mineo Nakajima, one of Japan's leading Sinologists. "It looks wonderful, but it's all an illusion." Many of the most difficult issues were put on hold while Deng lived, but the new regime cannot hope to ignore these malignancies indefinitely...
Like Deng, who was hounded into exile by rampaging Red Guard demonstrators at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Jiang believes only a strong hand can stave off chaos in China. Yet time may be running out on that formula. Even now, says Mineo Nakajima, a Sinologist at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, "Jiang is using the police and security forces to control social unrest, but he will have difficulty if it continues to escalate." The country's volatile economic situation and its corruption accentuate the widespread sense of unfairness, feeding the "red-eye disease"--envy...
...bureaucratic dead weight is beginning to affect even some of the agencies once regarded as the U.N.'s best, notably WHO. While many of its people in the field still do good work, the agency's Geneva headquarters is increasingly bloated. Hiroshi Nakajima, who became director general in 1988, has sharply increased the number of senior staff members from 66 to 107. WHO says the increase probably reflects a growth in extrabudgetary programs. Most of these people earn about $75,000 a year. One subordinate says, "When you work with doctors in Zaire who get paid only $6 a week...
...disburses a biennial budget of $1.7 billion on programs ranging from malaria inoculations to AIDS prevention. Nakajima, his critics charge, has run it in an autocratic manner, but Japan made his reappointment a matter of national pride and applied inordinate pressure to secure it. In May, Nakajima must still win approval, usually pro forma, from the organization's 168-nation assembly...