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...attending a prestigious private academy in Kobe. Though she had run away before, Tokuda left home for good last December after her father reportedly blew up over her newly pierced ears. Her 21-year-old boyfriend found the 16-year-old Tokuda strangled late October in the one-room Osaka apartment they shared. It turned out Tokuda had been seduced by the mean streets of Osaka. Journalists found ads for a bar, where patrons paid to fondle girls, featuring Tokuda in a slinky beige teddy. Earlier this month, a 17-year-old drifter was charged with murdering her during...
...also too late for Noriko Kamiie. She fled her Osaka home in July after her father scolded her for staying out late the previous night. Just after 10 p.m., though, Kamiie called her mother from her cell phone to say she was heading home. Twenty minutes later, she was pushed handcuffed out of a car on a major expressway 40 km away. Kamiie died of blood loss shortly afterward. In September, a 34-year-old middle-school teacher was arrested for her murder. Police said he had found the girl through a cell-phone dating club and had arranged...
...clique, group, O.K., call it a gang, that goes out on enjo kosai dates?pay dates?and pools the money. They share their secrets and fears because that makes them feel safer, somehow, like they're not alone. Kayoko, Ah and her gang live in the Western district of Osaka, a 40-minute train ride from the city center. An outsider just passing through might think their neighborhood looks quaint. There's a brook crisscrossed by cute footpaths running the length of the street next to this park. Newly remodeled houses with perfectly manicured shrubs shaped like bonsai are just...
...year after the Tokyo subway attacks, Osaka-born Kenji Yanobe began creating his radiation-proof suits and cars, as well as traveling to nuclear test and accident sites such as Nevada and Chernobyl. "I'm not really a strong man mentally or physically," says the artist. "That's why I have to make something, a protective suit, because I'm really a coward, afraid of many things. I have to create something. I have to survive." For Sydney's Antenna of the World, 2001, Yanobe places a life-size figure of himself amid 400 miniature "Atom" figures, some of which...
...first Americans started playing in Japan, their presence has been controversial. Many bristled at the strict training regimen. Umpires and coaches often were harder on them. Fans expected them to hit home runs every time they came to the plate. And sometimes xenophobia reared its head. "The fans in Osaka are great," says Rhodes. "But away from home, yeah, I hear it all the time: 'We hate you Americans! Go home to America!' It doesn't bother...