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BORN: Sept. 17, 1941, Sacramento EDUCATION: U of California, Berkeley, A.B., 1963; J.D., 1966 FAMILY: Wife, Doris Okada; one child RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Sacramento City Council, 1971-78; U.S. House 1978- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1347, Sacramento...
DIED. EIJI OKADA, 75, Japanese screen actor admired around the world for his roles as an architect in the French film Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959), a head of state in the U.S. drama The Ugly American (1963) and an insect collector in the Japanese classic Woman in the Dunes (1964); in Tokyo...
...primitve, and there are almost no magazines available online, subscribers to NIFTY-Serve and PC Van, the two largest online services, now total 1.7 million, up 42% from a year earlier. Online forums, where groups of people can exchange ideas and comments, are especially popular. Says Tomoo Okada, NIFTY's president: ``Many Japanese are shy in face-to-face conversation. But they seem to derive confidence from the anonymity of online forums and E-mail...
Though no cause-and-effect relationship between economic and physical ills ^ can be proved, Japanese medical experts do not consider the notion as farfetched as it sounds. Almost any disease can be exacerbated by tension. Observes Dr. Ryozo Okada, a professor of medicine at Tokyo's Juntendo University: "When faced with a sudden change in the business climate, those who are not capable of dealing with a new situation internalize stress, push themselves beyond limits and die suddenly...
During the two hours that presiding Judge Mitsunori Okada took to explain the ruling, a fidgety Tanaka gazed up at the ceiling, squinted down at his watch, folded and unfolded his ubiquitous paper fan. When Okada finally issued the verdict, Tanaka listened with his eyes closed. The three-judge panel found Tanaka guilty of having accepted $2 million in bribes from the Lockheed Corp. during the early 1970s in return for persuading Japan's largest domestic airline, All Nippon Airways, to buy the company's TriStar jets. He was sentenced to four years in prison and fined...