Word: okayama
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Tokyo Shift Your cover story showed me that, yes, we can [Aug. 31]. Japan's youth can make a difference and bring some light into our future, slowly but surely. Sachiko Katayama, Okayama, Japan...
...with magazines, no company can entirely predict when teen tastes may change. Sometimes girls want?NOW!?what a famous singer wears in her new video. (Ayumi Hamasaki's flower pins, for instance.) But trendy Tokyo girls soon tire of being copied by their country bumpkin cousins in Saitama and Okayama and start looking for newer, more kawaii looks to sport?almost as soon as they've attached those pins to their lapels. That creates a hothouse environment where a brand can go from unknown to saturation point in under a month. "Some brands in 109 retain high sales even while...
There was even more terror aboard the 58-m fishing boat, on a training voyage with students from Uwajima Fisheries High School in southwest Japan. "I saw something come up, and I thought it was a whale," crew member Hideo Okayama said. "All I heard was someone screaming, 'Danger! Danger!'" For the next few minutes, the Americans?unable to render assistance because of 2-m waves washing over the sub's deck 15 km south of Hawaii's Diamond Head?watched helplessly as Okayama and 25 shipmates, coated in diesel fuel, struggled into a trio of lifeboats. Nine other people...
There was even more terror aboard the 190-ft. fishing boat, on a training voyage with students from Uwajima Fisheries High School in southwest Japan. "I saw something come up, and I thought it was a whale," crew member Hideo Okayama said. "All I heard was someone screaming, 'Danger! Danger!'" For the next few minutes, the Americans--unable to render assistance because of 6-ft. waves washing over the sub's deck nine miles south of Hawaii's Diamond Head--watched helplessly as Okayama and 25 shipmates, coated in diesel fuel, struggled into a trio of lifeboats. Nine other people...
...district?a popular Takeshi haunt?waiting for a glimpse of their master. The restaurant became known as the holy shrine to Beat; his followers began to call him tono, or "lord." "We waited outside for four hours, just to see him," recalls Hakase Suidobashi, 38, who grew up in Okayama but enrolled in a Tokyo university to be nearer to his idol. Beat even recruited writers and comics for his TV shows from this clique of fans. Now, like a Japanese trading company or the yakuza, the Takeshi Gundan has become hierarchical, with a seniority system and top-down management...