Word: okada
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...ELECTED. KATSUYA OKADA, 50, to the presidency of the Democratic Party of Japan, the country's largest opposition party; in Tokyo. Former leader Naoto Kan resigned earlier this month after being implicated in Japan's ongoing pension-payment scandal. Formerly the party's secretary-general, Okada accepted the post reluctantly after other prominent party members declined, saying that it "may be my fate" to lead...
...Emiko Okada was 8 and playing in the yard with her two little brothers when she saw the blinding light. Then came a boom and and a blast that knocked her unconscious. When she came to, she recalls, "I felt like the sun was falling toward me." Her brothers wailed beside her, their bodies swollen with burns. Neighbors stumbled by, naked, skin hanging off them in shreds. Corpses littered the road. It was Aug. 6, 1945, in Hiroshima. No one in the southern Japanese city had paid much attention to the distant buzz of three American B-29 bombers overhead...
Many popular sake drinks, such as the Sake Bloody Mary and Sake Margarita, simply substitute sake for other, harder alcohols. But the Sake Martini—nicknamed the Saketini—pairs dry sake with an alcohol to enhance the taste of both. Kei Okada of Ginza, an upscale Boston sushi restaurant, describes the benefits of the Sake Martini: “It is much smoother than a regular martini. Also, because sushi contains rice and sake is brewed from rice the two complement each other very well.” Okada recommends Kariho-Namahage or Onikoroshi sake because they...
...faces a host of other structural problems that aren't being fixed?and aren't likely to be if leaders exploit the whiff of a recovery to justify continuing a pattern of do-nothing politics. "The ruling party could use this as an excuse to stall reform," says Katsuya Okada, a Democratic Party leader. Any improvement "is only cyclical," Okada carps, "it doesn't represent a full recovery...
...Robert Okada and Z. Samuel Podolsky...