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...succeeded, with an aggressive Day-Glo style that has commanded the spotlight at the world's premier sporting event, instantly lifting a dispirited nation. "Winning these games, the team gives us Japanese the power to be brave," says 18-year-old college student Hiroki Sakaue as he waits outside Osaka's Nagai Stadium for a glimpse of his new heroes. Says his friend Hiromi Kaya: "They give us hope...
...country is beaming with him. Throughout the finals, Japanese stadiums have been packed with raucous fans dressed in the royal blue of Japan's team, rocking arenas with a seismic jolt of uncharacteristically exuberant support for the home side. Thousands of delirious Japanese poured onto the streets of Osaka on Friday night after the 2-0 victory over Tunisia. They climbed lampposts, darted in and out of traffic and leaped off car roofs. About 100 people, including salarymen, teenagers, and one buck-naked man with a Japanese flag tied around his neck like a cape, jumped into the green, murky...
Every time I return to India, the land of my forefathers, from the island where I choose to make my home, Japan, I find myself sounding like a salaryman from Osaka. Why is the 10 a.m. bus still invisible at 10:23? Why do all the people around me insist on going from A to B via P, T and X? Why do those infernal traffic lights, when not failing to impede traffic, flash the word relax? India sometimes seems to exist only to confound the expectations and to explode the tenses of a visitor from abroad. Flying into...
...eyes and checkbooks. It is an international gathering with a wide range, though overwhelmingly dominated by New York with its imposing presence of 69 galleries. Other galleries represent all the major, and not-so-major, hotbeds of contemporary art, including Berlin to Chicago to London to Osaka...
...quite a comedown from four years ago, in Nagano, where the host team ski jumped and skated its way to five gold medals. This time, it's up to Miyake and Michiyo Hashimoto, 29, who recently finished first and second in a World Cup event. Hashimoto, an Osaka native, is also a relative newcomer to snowboarding; she took it up five years ago when she abandoned skiing to try extreme sports. "After the Olympics," says Hashimoto. "I hope to have a nice video and some good pictures of myself...