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GEORGE LEWIS: TRIOS & BANDS (American Music). New Orleans-born George Lewis became a cult figure for traditional jazz fans the world over and the model of dozens of clarinetists ranging from Woody Allen to Britain's Sammy Rimington and Japan's Ryoichi Kawai. Lewis died in 1968, but musicologist Bill Russell, 87, is keeping his message alive with the CD release of historic acetate recordings Russell made a half-century ago. (American Music, 1206 Decatur Street, New Orleans...
...Ryoichi Naito, the founder of Green Cross, came across an article in Der Spiegel while traveling in West Germany. The article outlined the research on artificial blood done by Dr. Robert Geyer, head of the Nutrition Department at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Naito immediately caught a plane a Boston and dropped in on Dr. Geyer. As the saying goes. "The rest is history...
That view sat well with Ryoichi Sasakawa, 81, famous in Japan as a philanthropist and longtime prewar supporter of conservative causes, an accused war criminal who spent three years in jail after World War II, and a multimillionaire whose fortune was made by, among other things, staging hydroplane races on which eager Japanese bettors could wager. Sasakawa disclosed that he had sponsored the salvage ship Teno and its team of divers at a cost of $13.6 million. The ingots and whatever else was found were his, said Sasakawa, who estimated that treasure worth no less than $36 billion was aboard...
...tale illustrates the astonishing behind-the-scenes influence wielded by Ryoichi Sasakawa, 75, the most powerful remaining member of a vanishing breed of Japanese kingmakers known as kuromaku. The word translates literally as black curtain,* but the closest equivalent in American slang of the power it connotes is godfather. Through his enormous fortune (his real estate holdings alone are estimated at $71.4 million) and the huge store of giri (moral obligations) he has accumulated over the years by dispensing favors and finances, Sasakawa has a puissance that any American influence peddler would envy...
...like the Emperor's new clothes. In an unprecedented action, Architect Yoshimura resigned. "Palace authorities have persistently ignored my conscience as an artist," he charged. The crux of the matter, it developed, was the old bugaboo of public projects-cost. Yoshimura's idea of simplicity, claimed Ryoichi Takao, head of the Palace Construction Bureau, included too many costly details. Yoshimura, for instance, wanted the expansion joints connecting the buildings covered, and planned to use 45-ft.-long, exposed cypress beams for the ceiling. Finding a loophole in the architect's contract that limited him to a supervisory...