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...Tanabe Seiichi) is a brooding engineer who's gay, gets hit on by women, but tries to keep his secret hidden. That is until he meets Naoya (Takahashi Kazuya), a self-centered gay man, and the two of them start a love affair. Into their lives comes Asako (Kataoka Reiko), a surly twentysomething who has been on more laps than a restaurant napkin, and who takes a shine to Katshuhiro. In him she sees a man with "a father's eyes" and suggests they conceive a child by artificial means, to Naoya's initial displeasure. Between bouts of bowling, drinking...
...LAKE by YASUNARI KAWABATA Translated by REIKO TSUKIMURA 160 pages. Kodansha International...
Hinsdale, Ill., Salt Creek Playhouse: The Teahouse of the August Moon, with Comedian Jack Douglas and his Japanese wife, Reiko...
Most gravely stricken of all were Japan's impressionable young ladies. A 22-year-old salesgirl at the giant Takashi-maya department store in Tokyo gushed to an inquiring reporter: "He is rich, young, handsome and intelligent-the most ideal man in the world." Reiko Dan, a leading Japanese movie actress, confided that she would abstain from voting because Japanese parties lacked "a handsome candidate like Mr. Kennedy...
...Horikawa Senior High coeducation came last October. Now, of 2,531 pupils, 1,104 are girls. None had ever studied with boys before; they went to separate, inferior schools in line with the feudal principle that boys are superior beings. "At first I was bewildered and frightened," said Reiko Yasuda, a slight, pretty eleventh-grader, "but after I got used to it I found it a challenge to try to keep up with the boys." Another coed, Yoko Kira, added: "Coeducation is very enjoyable...
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