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...syllable American and Australian, Phelps and Thorpe. In the gymnastics arena, even the Americans who came in second in the men's team final could hardly begrudge the tears of joy from Mitsuo Tsukahara, a Japanese gymnast who won gold in 1976 and was now watching his son Naoya lead the 2004 tumbling squad to victory. "When I was an athlete who won, I was happy," said the elder Tsukahara. "But as a father, I am proud. And that emotion is even more powerful than just happiness." Clutching her son's victory bouquet in one hand and a bunch...
...Katshuhiro (Tanabe Seiichi) is a brooding engineer who's gay, gets hit on by women, but tries to keep his secret hidden. That is until he meets Naoya (Takahashi Kazuya), a self-centered gay man, and the two of them start a love affair. Into their lives comes Asako (Kataoka Reiko), a surly twentysomething who has been on more laps than a restaurant napkin, and who takes a shine to Katshuhiro. In him she sees a man with "a father's eyes" and suggests they conceive a child by artificial means, to Naoya's initial displeasure. Between bouts of bowling...
...Daddy's Boys Father usually knows best in tradition-bound Japan, especially if he's a gold-medal Olympian. But Naoya Tsukahara and Akihiro Kasamatsu - sons of two of Japan's most decorated gymnasts - are ready to prove they know a little something, too. "We can compete on our own terms," says the younger Tsukahara, who stars on Japan's Sydney squad along with Kasamatsu junior. "This...
...When the elder Tsukahara and Kasamatsu were competing, Japan was a gymnastics powerhouse that captured the team Olympic gold at each of the Games from 1960 to '76. The pair racked up more than a dozen medals between them. Naoya and Akihiro are competing on a less formidable team that lags behind the dominant Russians and Chinese. Still, Japan's fortunes may finally be changing. At the World Championships in Tianjin, China last year, 23-year-old Tsukahara nabbed the silver in the all-around event. With top Russian gymnast Nikolay Krukov recovering from a pulled Achilles tendon and China...
...Died. Naoya Shiga, 88, the grand old misanthropic master of Japanese letters, known to his countrymen as "the Divine Novelist" and "Emperor Shiga"; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Shiga was a perfectionist who spent 16 years writing his only full-length novel, a semi-autobiographical work called Anya Koro (Journey Through the Darkness). But he was a prolific short-story writer and essayist. His delicate and unadorned prose made his works classics. Shiga was frustrated by what he considered the inadequacies of his own language: he once urged Japan to adopt "a more exacting foreign tongue...