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...hard to be against motherhood, but Japan, a country with a falling birthrate, may have found a way. When television variety-show host Aki Mukai and her husband, former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada, announced the birth of their twin boys last Tuesday, they drew fresh attention to the country's restrictive law surrounding surrogate mothers. Due to a 41-year-old Supreme Court ruling, Mukai, 39, can't be registered as the twins' biological mother, because the couple used a surrogate to give birth; to be recognized, she must legally adopt the twins...
...Takei has since published a diverse range of books from authors and artists, including Noam Chomsky, Terry Richardson and Nobuhiko Kitamura, founder of fashion brand Hysteric Glamour. It was as a publisher of photography books, however, that Little More established its edgy reputation. Takei believed that visually rich books priced at music-CD levels could be marketed to young people who don't usually read. "Little More doesn't spend any money on the look or the binding of the book at all. They spend money only on the contents, and for the contents they spend as much as they...
...slips back into war. In Colombo, the nation's capital, checkpoints and armored guards are still conspicuous. But many roads that were closed off for security reasons have reopened, and shiny new imported cars clog the main traffic arteries at rush hour. "This year, sales are up sharply," says Nobuhiko Kato, managing director of Toyota Lanka. Fueled by a booming financial sector that offers consumers easy purchasing plans, Toyota forecasts that the number of its cars sold in Sri Lanka will rise from 480 in 2002 to 850 this year?a long-awaited sign that the worst has passed...
...always murenai," observes political commentator Nobuhiko Shima, "outside the group. He always went his own way. Now, in Japan, outsiders are respected. It's a big change." Entrepreneurial tycoon Masayoshi Son is Korean; Nissan fix-it man Carlos Ghosn is Brazilian. Both have successfully challenged the traditional rules of Japanese business. "It is the time for the outsiders in Japan," says Shima...
...Motor Co. announced the development of a gasoline engine that is nearly emission-free. "A car equipped with this engine could drive through a high smog area and the smog producing emissions coming out of the tailpipe would actually be lower than they are in the surrounding air," said Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda's president and chief executive officer...