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...Satoru Ogasawara, economist for Credit Suisse in Tokyo who covers foreign exchange, expects the yen to advance to 85 to the dollar within three months and to 83 over the next year. Intervention, he says, will come at the 85-level, but even then it is difficult to predict what will happen. "What we're seeing is the unwinding of the yen carry trade," says JPMorgan Chase's Sasaki, referring to the practice of buying low-interest yen and investing it in high-yield currencies. "It's a very strong and powerful movement and it's difficult to stop...
...fact, sperm whales are the main predators of giant squid, and the Japanese found the squid by following the whales off the Ogasawara islands, about 1,000 km south of Tokyo. Starting in 2002, the team searched for squid in the area for around two weeks every year, lowering into the waters a digital camera and weighted hooks baited with common squid and mashed shrimp. Depth mattered: the giant squid were believed to live about 1,000 m down. "At that point, our squid-watching turned unmistakably into squid-hunting," says Kubodera. No squid took the bait until Sept...
...Ogasawara says he did not understand the real nature of 731's work until several months after his arrival at Pinfang, when he was assigned to clean up a restricted room that contained human remains on which researchers had been experimenting. Ordered to keep silent or be court-martialed, he was put to work breeding fleas and rats, which were used to spread germs. Sometimes, he recalls, prisoners destined to die in the experiments waved at him from their cells, offering him food. "I was only a little shaven-headed kid," he explains. "They probably thought...
...late summer of 1945 the surviving inmates were put to death, and Ogasawara was among the men assigned to dispose of the bodies. After the war, senior officers of Unit 731 captured by the Soviets were sent to Siberian labor camps. The U.S. agreed not to prosecute unit members in exchange for the death camp's medical data...
Today an exhibition about Unit 731, complete with photographs and artifacts, is touring Japan, with 40 stops planned around the country; Ogasawara -- along with other former unit members -- offers his testimony at the exhibition whenever he can. For a Japan that still has not totally come to terms with the wartime past, his words are painful reminders of one of the darkest chapters in the country's history...