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Thanks to Nancy Gibbs for an articulate and in-depth summary of the horrific events, with more details than we are getting from the TV. It conveyed the emotion of this terrible story without resorting to maudlin phrases and cliche. LIZ SAKAI Lake Forest, Calif...
...period lacked individual artists who were seen, then and now, as stars. Its core achievement, in painting, was the allusive and delicate work of the so-called Rimpa artists: Tawaraya Sotatsu and Hon'ami Koetsu in the 17th century, and later the brothers Ogata Korin and Ogata Kenzan, Sakai Hoitsu and others. The show abounds in their work, especially the large folding screens that were Japan's closest equivalent to Western murals. Hoitsu (1761-1828) is represented by one of his finest screens, Flowers and Grasses of Summer and Autumn, in which you can almost feel the wind bending...
...bureaucracies that used to deliver progress only contribute sclerosis. Critics roundly blamed bureaucratic ineptitude for the sluggish rescue response to last year's Kobe earthquake, which took more than 6,300 lives in the region. The same complaints were repeated last summer, when a food-poisoning epidemic in Sakai City, near Osaka, spread to affect nearly 5,800 people throughout the country. "If the politicians stick to the status quo, then we will lose our position in the world market," says Isamu Miyazaki, a senior adviser at the Daiwa Institute of Research. Competition from China and other fast-growing economies...
...after public health workers warned him about the problem. The sentence comes at a time when Japan is suffering through a new outbreak of the same bacteria, this time affecting mostly children. Seven are dead, and more than 8,700 are sick after E.coli contaminated lunches showed up in Sakai, about 300 miles west of Tokyo. Now, after taking some time to understand the seriousness of the disease, tense federal health officials are examining hundreds of school lunches, disinfecting the schools and treating the sick for free. The sluggish response to the infection is raising questions about the Japanese government...
...first major Asian hunk in Hollywood since Sessue Hayakawa 75 years ago. "In this town Jason instantly became somebody who could star in a movie," says Chris Lee, senior vice president at TriStar Pictures and one of several Asian Americans (Teddy Zee at Columbia, Bonni Lee at Geffen, Richard Sakai at Jim Brooks' Gracie Productions) inching their way up Mogul Mountain. "We've entered the system and there's more of us to come, and that's changing the face of Hollywood...