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...immigrants flock to the U.S.; that's why some 20 million Americans (and 2 million foreigners) went to Vegas in 1992. "Las Vegas exists because it is a perfect reflection of America," says Steve Wynn, the city's most important and interesting resident. "You say 'Las Vegas' in Osaka or Johannesburg, anywhere in the world, and people smile, they understand. It represents all the things people in every city in America like. Here they can get it in one gulp." There is a Jorge Luis Borges story called The Aleph that describes the magical point where all places are seen...
...world will not become America. Anyone who has been to a baseball game in Osaka, or a Pizza Hut in Moscow, knows instantly that she is not in Kansas. But America may still, if only symbolically, be a model for the world. E Pluribus Unum, after all, is on the dollar bill. As Federico Mayor Zaragoza, the director-general of UNESCO, has said, "America's main role in the new world order is not as a military superpower, but as a multicultural superpower...
...pool their stock and take over National Shoes. After throwing them out, Gondo reveals to his assistant that he has borrowed on everything, including the house, in order to acquire enough stock to leverage his own takeover. The assistant is to take a check for 50 million yen to Osaka to complete the transaction, but the phone rings. A voice tells Gondo that his son has been kidnapped: the ransom is 30 million yen. Ready to pay any price for his own son, Gondo then learns that the son of his chauffeur was taken by mistake, but the kidnapper wants...
AIDS is no game -- except in Japan. Medic, an Osaka-based software company, is selling a popular video game in which players simulate the experience of AIDS from HIV infection until death. The name of the game: Jinai Seijin, which means "Saint of Godly Love" (the manufacturers wanted an upbeat title). The plot of the game centers on a 25-year-old who strays into a red-light district and later suspects he's become infected with HIV. Players then have several choices, including promiscuity, suicide or a life with a girlfriend who also has AIDS. The game, developed...
...America people go to bars for a drink. In Japan they can now go to a bar for enlightenment. A new saloon has opened in Osaka featuring friendly conversation over a glass of sake with an on-premises Buddhist priest. Patronage has been steady, with discussion topics ranging from personal problems to Japanese political scandals. The bar is the brainchild of an ex- bar owner named Manabu Yoshida and Fumihiko Kiyoshi, a Buddhist priest whose sect emphasizes preaching. The two bill their venture as "a temple that is in harmony with...