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...Yoshio Saito believes he has an answer: In 1976, Saito founded the Minami Uonuma Medical and Welfare Center an hour and a half north of Tokyo, and he's run it ever since. Saito's center includes the Yairo-en nursing home and a hospital, but his aim is to keep seniors out of both facilities for as long as possible by providing community care that allows the elderly to continue living in their own homes as long as possible. While they're still relatively healthy, nearby seniors can come to the hospital for day-care and checkups; when they...
...relatively isolated and snowbound Minami Uonuma City is old and emptying out; the cavernous bullet train station is literally empty on the day I visit. The hospital stopped offering childbirth services in 2002, and the local economy is on life support. "The government's finances are deficit-ridden," says Saito. "We're under great pressure to control spending...
...through his reliance on community medicine, Saito has managed to keep most of his programs in the black, without sacrificing quality. I accompany one the center's physical therapists on a home visit to an elderly couple who live in a drafty house they built themselves. The 61-year-old husband (the couple asked not to be named) has been mostly bed-ridden for seven years, since he broke several vertebrae in a fall. The visits, which cost around $60 each, are funded almost entirely by the government in keeping with Japan's system of socialized medicine, but they allow...
...night before, where sales of Impressionist and modern art totaled $238 million, seemed to confirm that the market has reached another bubble phase. It's reminiscent of the bubble that inflated in the '80s, when dealmakers such as Australia's Alan Bond and yen jillionaires like Ryoei Saito chased Van Goghs to the stratosphere. (Saito paid $82.5 million for Portrait of Dr. Gachet.) Dotcom entrepreneurs with Internet funny money bought Impressionists and Pop Art. Today a new generation of hedge-fund billionaires and Chinese and Russian kleptocrats is part of an ocean of capital flowing into galleries and auction houses...
...have been a supporter of Koizumi's since before he became Prime Minister. I always found his way of speaking easy to understand and his manner appealing. Koizumi made Japanese politics interesting. I bid him a fond farewell and hope that his successor will continue his reforms. Yoshie Saito Furano, Japan...