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...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...
...Disney is counting on the younger generation, who make up 80% of the movie-going public. But if the reactions of movie fans exiting the Tokyo premiere are any guide, this won't be a slam dunk. Naho Okada, a 17-year-old student, attended the premiere because Ben Affleck is "such a hottie." But the war scenes made her "uncomfortable," she says. Others were more blunt. "You can't make a film about this subject and not be critical of Japan," says Eri Watanabe, a 23-year-old housewife, "But I think it's pretty egotistical of Disney...
Some Japanese may indeed think that, even those of the younger generation, whose members make up the majority of audiences. "As a Japanese, I felt uncomfortable seeing the destruction our side caused," says Naho Okada, 17. She thinks a minute. "But Ben Affleck is really cute." It's that sort of cultural sensitivity that sells tickets...
...narrative strands. "You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down...When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries. If everything dries up, the world is darkness." This is the philosophy impressed upon Okada by Mr. Honda, an elderly psychic with a weird fascination with phlegm. This analogy, intended to emphasize the nature of Okada's adventures in existential wackiness, is repeated throughout the novel ad nauseum. Although it's meant to serve to focus the book's many themes, it seems jarringly unoriginal...