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...comet. He belted three home runs on opening day in 1994, at Chicago's Wrigley Field. Then he flamed out, hitting just five more homers the rest of the season. After a couple of lackluster seasons, he came to Japan in 1996 to play for the Kintetsu Buffaloes in Osaka, where he quickly became a star. "They gave me a chance to play here," he says, gratefully. "They made my career possible." This year he is paying them back. While Ichiro is busy putting his signature on American baseball, Rhodes is threatening to add his American name to Japanese sporting...
...slated to appear in the next two installments of The Matrix. DIED. YOSHIAKI SHIRAISHI, 87, a former sushi chef and inventor of kaiten-zushi, a clever conveyor-belt system for serving sushi in restaurants that uses color-coded plates to inform customers of the prices; in Osaka. In 1958, Shiraishi opened the first restaurant using his method, which quickly gained popularity throughout Japan and overseas. DIED. GOVAN MBEKI, 91, father of South African President Thabo Mbeki and longtime antiapartheid activist who was jailed in 1964 along with Nelson Mandela, a fellow African National Congress leader; in Port Elizabeth, South Africa...
...founder of the famed Seido Kaikan karate school in Osaka, Japan, Ishii, 48, has respect for the aesthetic and ascetic virtues of the martial arts. It's just that he prefers the martial to the arts, and he believes spectators do too. "To increase the popularity and visibility of karate, we need to professionalize it as part of an entertaining fighting sport," he says. "I want to make K-1 as popular worldwide as F1 [Formula...
...Bayly remembers Aug. 12, 1985. Eight months pregnant and jittery, she pleaded with Yukawa not to take a last-minute business trip to Osaka. He placated her over a boxed sushi lunch. "We walked together to Cassie's ballet school," Bayly recalls. "He kissed me, patted my stomach and said: 'Take care of my last creation.'" A few hours later, the TV flashed news of the crash...
...Institute of Electrical Power says the rapid-L, a 6-m by 2-m reactor designed for moon colonies, could eventually be used to light up individual office buildings and apartment blocks. Given Japan's nuclear safety record, that can only be considered a very hot appliance. TINY TAURUS Osaka University researchers have sculpted a plastic bull the size of a red blood cell, a laser technique that may lead to mite-sized machines. It's nice to see bullishness amid Japan's economic paralysis?even on a microscopic scale...