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...Gaza City, Palestine; Yaping Jiang, executive vice president of the People’s Daily Online in Beijing, China; Mary Ann Jolley, a producer/reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney; Guillermo E. Franco Morales, content manager of new media and editor of eltiempo.com in Bogota, Colombia; Takashi Oshima, a reporter, for The Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo, Japan; Altin Raxhimi, a producer-editor for Top Channel T.V., and correspondent for Transitions Online, in Tirana, Albania; and Alice Tatah, a producer/presenter for Cameroon Radio and Television in Yaounde...

Author: By Yingzhen Zhang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nieman Foundation Announces 12 Fellows | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

...running only twelve minutes behind its scheduled departure when it lifted off at 6:12 p.m. Tokyo time. Following its flight plan, the big plane headed south, climbed to 24,000 ft., then banked sharply right, toward the west, as it passed near the small island of Oshima, south of Haneda. At 6:25 p.m., when the aircraft was 20 miles west of the island and approaching the Izu Peninsula, Tokyo-area air-traffic controllers caught the first hint of danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Last Minutes of JAL 123 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Wild Sheep Chase. But what a tale! You never know when the cats will talk, the sky will rain sardines or yet another show-stopping character will step forward. In a Web poll of Japanese readers, most respondents said that if Kafka were dramatized, they would want to play Oshima, the librarian's impressively literate, transsexual assistant. Others preferred Hoshino, the earthy truck driver who helps the cat-talking old man in his quest to find a magic stone that can free the boy from his curse. Like any Murakami novel, Kafka defies both description and the urge to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Raining Sardines | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

...Wild Sheep Chase. But what a tale! You never know when the cats will talk, the sky will rain sardines or yet another show-stopping character will step forward. In a Web poll of Japanese readers, most respondents said that if Kafka were dramatized, they would want to play Oshima, the librarian's impressively literate, transsexual assistant. Others preferred Hoshino, the earthy truck driver who helps the cat-talking old man in his quest to find a magic stone that can free the boy from his curse. Like any Murakami novel, Kafka defies both description and the urge to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Raining Sardines | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...started his career as an assistant to Nagisa Oshima, the father of the Japanese New Wave, known for his controversial subject matter (the 1976 classic In the Realm of the Senses has never been shown uncensored in Japan) and his discipline on the set. Oshima's perfectionism rubbed off on Sai-the cast and crew of Blood and Bones took to calling him "mini-Shunpei" for his dictatorial tendencies. Sai also shares his mentor's taste for the seedier corners of society. "I'll leave the stories about honorable lives and upstanding families to other directors," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close to the Bone | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

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