Word: sakurai
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...blubbering over the prospect of hungry cetacean connoisseurs waiting on shore with carving knives and barbecue grills and using CDs of Songs of the Humpback Whale for bait, you're not alone. Junko Sakurai of Greenpeace Japan doubts officials will make much of an effort to rescue beached whales if they know they can trade them in at the local supermarket. "We have pork, chicken, beef and fish. Why do we need whale?" says Sakurai, although as a member of Greenpeace, she may not be the best judge of the succulent taste of a nicely grilled finback-whale steak...
...relentless as in Saving Private Ryan; copious blood and gore saturate virtually every scene. Death, ubiquitous as it is, usually comes garnished with generous amounts of melodrama. And most of the heroes are endowed with idol-caliber good looks, most notably the Wild Seven's icily gorgeous sniper Saki Sakurai, played by teen siren Natsuki Kato...
...that Mitsui's plight is a powerful example of why the country needs a "whistle-blowers law," a legal shield to protect insiders who disclose damning information about their employers. "There are so many scandals concerning bureaucrats that have come to light in the past several years," says Mitsuru Sakurai, a member of the Diet, Japan's legislature. "I reckon 90% were exposed by people within the ministries. We have to encourage more people to follow their lead...
...Politicians like Sakurai and Etsuko Kawada, a nonpartisan Diet member whose hemophiliac son contracted HIV from a tainted blood transfusion, are trying to encourage whistle-blowing as a line of defense against corporate and bureaucratic malfeasance. Sakurai's Democratic Party and four other opposition parties are drafting legislation they plan to introduce at a special Diet session scheduled for October. Their Public Interest Disclosure Law calls for the creation of a special body run by a five-member citizens' committee, which would have the power to investigate cases where government employees have been harassed or fired for stepping forward...
Over the past three years, while his fellow commuters jostled for space or scanned the morning paper, Yamada, 55, devoted his four-hour daily commute to a higher cause--dreaming up the next great consumer gadget. In 1997 Ricoh president Masamitsu Sakurai commissioned Yamada to create a device that would help catapult his company, which had built its fortunes on heavy office machines, into the forefront of digital technology. The trouble was, Sakurai didn't really know what he wanted. "The idea was to develop a product that uses all our senses," says Yamada. "There was no paper, no specifications...