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According to Japan's spring 2004 Directory of Parliament Officials, Representative Katsuya Okada's personal motto is Tai ki ban sei, a classic Japanese proverb that means "Great talents mature late." But considering that the new president of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has rocketed from relative obscurity to what could be the golden era of his political career-all at the comparatively tender age of 52-he may want to revise that motto before the next guide is printed. With the DPJ's strong showing in the recent Upper House parliamentary election, Okada has cemented his position...
...This has been a surprise. When Okada became party president less than three months ago, the DPJ was in turmoil. Its two most senior members, Naoto Kan and Ichiro Ozawa, had succumbed to a far-reaching pension scandal that forced them to resign their leadership posts. With only weeks to go before the election, the nation's largest opposition party seemed rudderless and lacking a message. Political pundits predicted a thumping defeat at the hands of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's near-hegemonic Liberal Demo-cratic Party (LDP), which has had a nearly uninterrupted hold on power for almost...
...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...