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...developing relationships with magazines, no company can entirely predict when teen tastes may change. Sometimes girls want?NOW!?what a famous singer wears in her new video. (Ayumi Hamasaki's flower pins, for instance.) But trendy Tokyo girls soon tire of being copied by their country bumpkin cousins in Saitama and Okayama and start looking for newer, more kawaii looks to sport?almost as soon as they've attached those pins to their lapels. That creates a hothouse environment where a brand can go from unknown to saturation point in under a month. "Some brands in 109 retain high sales...
...agree with your view that the heroes and icons of the century teach us how to live through their triumphs and follies. Those who are called heroes should be the people who teach us and move us even more when they lose than when they win. KOICHIRO YOSHINO Saitama, Japan...
...malevolent in cursing the more than 5,000 people who were killed in the quake, saying, ``This is certainly a divine punishment. We were expecting it, and we asked God to inflict it on Japan, which manipulated all its economic resources for the use of Satan.'' Hiromi Okamura Kasukabe Saitama, Japan The kobe earthquake left my daughter and her family homeless; they had to be evacuated from the city. I was determined to get to them even if I had to walk. I was able to take one of the few remaining trains halfway to my destination. There...
...Japan Travel Bureau, the country's largest tourist agency, thinks of everything -- including an excuse for customers to make a trip. No one appreciates that more than legislators from Saitama Prefecture, who take annual "fact finding" trips to Europe. Besides arranging every aspect of those luxurious boondoggles, the bureau provides junketeers with a detailed memorandum to submit along with their expense accounts. It drones on for 60 eye-glazing pages and is numbingly titled A Report on European Urban Policy and the State of Local Administrative Affairs. To give the journal a thin veneer of originality, names and dates...
These exhortations were compiled by top-ranking police officers of Saitama prefecture, ten miles north of Tokyo. The sex directives are part of a 45-page code of conduct issued to 6,840 members of the Saitama police force. The handbook, which also includes strictures against drinking and bribe taking, was prompted by the rising crime rate among police in Japan. Following the rape-murder of a college student by a bachelor cop last year, one Tokyo newspaper sagely observed that despite the police force's proud record of professionalism, "under the uniform there is nothing but naked flesh...