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...play baseball. Since then, the nation has been hooked. Each year, some 12 million fans jam its stadiums to eat an American import called the hotto dogu and scream "ganbare" (Let's go) as Japan's twelve professional teams battle each other with the ferocity of a samurai...
Miki's attitude typifies his defiance of L.D.P. tradition, a quality that has irritated, affronted and finally outraged party stalwarts. Deceptively mild-mannered, Miki, 69, displayed samurai nerve all year, pressing the Lockheed investigation to the indictment of 19 top businessmen and politicians, including his predecessor as Premier, Kakuei Tanaka. Even as he was acclaimed the "Mr. Clean" of Japanese politics, party leaders tried to dump him for exposing L.D.P. improprieties. Backed in the struggle by public opinion and the press, Miki had hoped for vindication at the polls...
...Japan's 7,500 movie houses have been closed or converted into bowling alleys and supermarkets. Time was when the great Japanese directors like Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa were winning film festivals all over the world with movies like An Autumn Afternoon, Rashomon and Seven Samurai. Today Kurosawa has priced himself out of the local market...
Premier Takeo Miki is regarded in Japan as a mild-mannered and even distressingly passive leader. Last week, however, he displayed a streak of combativeness worthy of a samurai. Facing a concerted effort by bosses of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to force his early resignation, Miki defiantly announced during a televised press conference that he would refuse to step down prematurely. He also abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with Party Vice President and Elder Statesman Etsusaburo Shiina, 78, that was widely expected to be the showdown between the Premier and his foes...
Maeno's background included some porn film credits (most recent: Tokyo Emmanuelle), two broken marriages and a previous suicide attempt. An ardent admirer of the ancient Japanese samurai code, he also esteemed Yukio Mishima, the flamboyant novelist who committed hara-kiri in 1970 to protest Japan's loss of traditional values. Many members of Japan's restive right wing have felt that Kodama damaged their cause by acting as a conduit for American bribes-an error that Maeno evidently was seeking to avenge...