Word: ogawa
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...horrified. It's like being called the Viagra family." Russell Cialis, public relations consultant, explaining why he's fighting to make Eli Lilly rename its Cialis impotence drug "I feel joy when I see the Tokyo government office or Ginza, where I work, destroyed by Godzilla." Hideki Ogawa, recording engineer, on why he is eagerly anticipating the 26th Godzilla film since...
...show on the country's economic woes--bad debt, creeping unemployment, collapsing banks and businesses--featuring a series of film clips in which top politicians and bureaucrats kept insisting that there would be no bank failures and that the economy was recovering, even growing. "The subtext," says Alicia Ogawa, an American-born banker who has lived in Japan for more than a decade, "was that you couldn't possibly believe a thing these people said...
...also implicating unnamed senior executives at the bank--the world's 13th largest--in a conspiracy with him to keep the catastrophe secret from the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. In London interbank lending rates jumped to reflect this latest blow to the Japanese banking system. Says Alicia Ogawa, an analyst at Salomon Brothers in Tokyo: "This new development serves only to increase distrust of Japanese banks...
...long cavalry sword, the shorter katana and the dirks known as tantos and wakizashis-went on view at Manhattan's Japan Society. The show is a scholarly event of the first importance, and its catalogue-mainly written by Japan's leading student of blades, 29-year-old Ogawa Morihiro-becomes at one stroke the standard text on its subject in English. But even for the non-expert the show is of overwhelming beauty...
...Kunimune, a late 13th century blade that Dr. Compton bought from a job lot offered by a Midwestern gun dealer. The sword, which had been looted from its shrine in Kyushu by a G.I. and has since been restored to Japan as a gift, is considered by Ogawa Morihiro "perfect in every aspect among all the existing national treasure blades." At first sight, it is difficult to imagine that the sword was finished by a contemporary of Giotto, a quarter of a century before Dante began writing the Divine Comedy...