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...come here and eventually be naturalized as our citizens - to bring diversity to our country [Dec. 17]. I believe that foreigners would provide Japan with more creativity and new ways of thinking. This would produce a new Japan that is globalized to meet the requirements of the coming era. Nakano Hiroki, Saitama, Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

Pilots gave high praise to Captain Takahama for keeping his stricken 747 in the air for at least 32 minutes after the tail damage was sustained over Sagami Bay. "In spite of such terrible conditions, the plane was kept aloft by engine thrust only," said Mitsuo Nakano, JAL's deputy chief of 747 pilots. "That is an incredible performance." A U.S. expert, Captain Homer Mouden of the Flight Safety Foundation in Arlington, Va., agreed. "The crew exhibited great courage and skill in trying to keep it sea flying," he said. But the odds loose," a United Air Lines pilot said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Last Minutes of JAL 123 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...about the subway poisoning, the traditionally reticent Japanese police revealed that they were entertaining 110 complaints against the cult for offenses including unlawful confinement, assault and theft. The charges seemed to embolden local authorities, who were reported in the press to be investigating a cult hospital in Tokyo's Nakano neighborhood and allegations of electronic bugging in Yamanashi. The Nagano prefectural police, acting on the soil samples that so perturbed the cult's neighbors, have begun investigating Aum's link to the deaths in Matsumoto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN'S PROPHET OF POISON: Shoko Asahara | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...year- old Korean woman who has lived in Japan for more than 70 years: "These attacks are crazy. Those children have committed no crimes. If the Japanese people want to protest against the North Korean regime, they should do so openly." Most Japanese are also dismayed. Said Sadako Nakano, 49, an accountant and mother: "I wonder why such an ordinary young man did such a nasty thing to an innocent girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk of the Streets | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

Before Francis Nakano became principal of Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles in 1982, the school was a combat zone. Teachers walked in fear of assault, gangs roamed the litter-strewn hallways, students were arrested for drug dealing, and vandals had just burned the administration building to the ground. The tough new principal changed all that. He painted the school, put in an alarm system, provided enough lunch benches for students to eat sitting down and bought some trash cans. He made each teacher responsible for the behavior of 120 students, and gang leaders were bluntly told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Preparing to Wield the Rod | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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