Word: nihon
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...home each evening, the last song he wants to hear on his car radio or television is his corporate anthem, the tune he is compelled to sing at year-end parties or, even worse, while performing morning calisthenics in the factory yard. Pity, therefore, the workers of Yokohama-based Nihon Break Kogyo Co. After a popular midnight variety show, Asahi TV's Tamori Club, played its shaka [anthem], the company was bombarded with feedback from viewers until it finally decided to release the song as a single. It debuted last week at No. 22 on the Oricon weekly...
...contrast, Nihon Break Kogyo's anthem has lyrics nihilistic enough for the most postmodern hipster: We will destroy houses! We will destroy bridges! We will destroy buildings! To the east! To the west...
...school days smoking cigarettes with his bosozoku (motorcycle gang) buddies. "But since my grades were good, teachers hated me more," he adds, laughing. His slacker attitude continued into university, where the budding DJ spent his graduation day "dancing in Goa." His absentee rate once prompted a worried Nihon University College of Art professor to land him a job at a local TV production company. He lasted two weeks. "Then I dropped out." He spent the next eight years wandering between Asian hotspots, touching down in Tokyo to reboot on new DAT technology and reload on yen and then blasting...
EXPLAINING to the Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun why he had not been promoted to grand champion, American-born sumo wrestler Konishiki said, "Strictly speaking, this is racial discrimination." By week's end, however, the 576-lb. idol backed down and said his remarks had been "misinterpreted...
...just stood there blankly," said a floor dealer. Another market watcher described it as a "bottomless swamp." The market edged upward on Friday as bargain hunters poured in, but a new era of wariness had clearly arrived. THE MARKET THAT WAS DREAMING A DREAM, blared a headline in Nihon Keizai Shimbun, a financial daily...