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...representation of the Hebrew word for love (ahava) and ponder its ironies as they look out upon the divided city. The piece is from American sculptor Robert Indiana, and joins works by Moore, Pablo Picasso, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle and others. The garden itself was designed by a sculptor, Isamu Noguchi, in the 1960s. Its original intent was to display the collection of famed Broadway producer Billy Rose, but over the decades the aims have expanded considerably. See www.imjnet.org.il...
...such it plays up A BATHING APE's many successes while leaving any artistic, aesthetic or financial missteps well off the page. Still, what it does, it does well: if you're buying it as a coffee table book, you'd better make sure you've got an Isamu Noguchi coffee table to go underneath it. *A Bathing Ape is eye candy for graphic design students - a slickly produced, bling-laden look at a brand that's managed to forge a nexus between hip-hop style, Japanese animation and Warhol-inspired pop art while keeping the kids coming back...
...police. But aside from a few minor deterrences - including a few raw eggs tossed from the crowd - the torch bearers' passage was without incident. The flame arrived at its final destination, the outdoor stage of the Nagano cultural building, in the hands of Japan's gold-medalist marathoner Mizuki Noguchi. Japan emerged from its Olympic relay with its honor intact and its relations with China unscathed...
...Everest, Noguchi noticed that the growing ranks of fellow mountaineers left piles of discarded climbing gear and trash?much of the rubbish bearing Chinese, Korean or Japanese labels. When a European climber noted in passing that "Japan is a developed country, but without any manners," Noguchi decided something had to be done. Returning to Everest in 2000, he climbed the mountain four times over the next four years with an international team that cleared nearly eight tons of waste from its slopes, including more than 400 discarded oxygen containers. Local Nepalese villagers didn't see the point of the project...
...same time, Noguchi took on an even more challenging cleanup project: Mount Fuji. If Everest is one of the most difficult mountains in the world to climb, Fuji is definitely the hardest to clean up. "I was shocked by how terrible it was," he says. "This is a national park." So, in 2000, Noguchi teamed up with the Fujisan Club, a local environmental group, and started leading collection expeditions up the mountain. Along the way, he inspired thousands of ordinary citizens to begin picking up, too. Today, Fuji is far cleaner, and with the toilets at all 48 locations...