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...traditional publishers as the manga market. He published the poetry book Ejiki by singer-actor-writer Kou Machida seven years before the writer received the Akutagawa Award, one of Japan's highest literary honors, in 2000. In 1998 Takei released the art book Slash With a Knife by Yoshitomo Nara, long before Nara became one of Japan's top painters. The film Hush!, which Takei helped market, has received numerous awards, including the Yokohama Film Festival 2001 grand prize. His freshest discovery is Rinko Kawauchi. Takei simultaneously published three books by this then-unknown female photographer in 2001; later that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heat Detector | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...biggest headache: a corruption scandal that is particularly embarrassing, given his campaign pledge to end dirty politics and his crusade to curb shady dealings among the country's powerful conglomerates. Two of Roh's closest aides are on trial for allegedly taking bribes from now defunct Nara Merchant Bank. Last week, prosecutors said they will summon former presidential secretary Choi Do Sul for questioning in a widening political-finance scandal. (It was the allegations against Choi, who resigned in August, that prompted Roh's surprise plea on Friday for the people's trust.) Prosecutors suspect Choi collected $1 million from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crisis of Confidence | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

...While Miyake may not be your classic Olympian, she's a poster girl for Japan's Generation Lost. A talented drifter, Miyake, 28, excelled in gymnastics as a child in Nara but quit. She later tried skiing but gave it up. And she took a break from her university studies in Chinese literature and went backpacking in New Zealand, where she happened to take a snowboarding course. She turned out to be pretty good at it. "I've always failed whenever I was hung up about winning," she says, "so I've decided to relax and take it easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebels on the Slope | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...White-coated female figures appear and vanish through doors off to the sides, whispering and gesturing. We could be in a mental hospital playing out some mysterious psychodrama. In another gallery space, five child-like sculptures are gathered in a circle. With their primary colors and beatific expressions, Yoshitomo Nara's Little Pilgrims (Nightwalkers), 1998, could be the Teletubbies?until one notices they are swaddled in bandages. These enigmatic figures are portraits of "a generation that somehow lost its way and is facing an uncertain future," says curator Kent, "a damaged generation." In this sense, "NEO-TOKYO" is very much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day-Glo and Darkness | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...department store down the street from me in Nara abruptly closed last week - and the construction workers dismantling it seemed happy not to be in the position of the salarymen they hear about who get up every morning, go to the park in coat-and-tie and return home at 7 p.m. to a family that doesn't know daddy has been laid off. Unemployment recently hit a postwar high of 5%, and my Japanese friends regularly point out "For Sale" signs proliferating outside luxury houses, or talk of college-age kids who actually want to work for the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's a Polite Word for Depression? | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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