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...York Times Magazine once described U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills as a "persistent, fiercely competitive, sometimes thin-skinned workaholic." Tough words for a tough woman. Yet as a leading Japanese politician would have it, Hills is more cute than competitive. Koko Sato, deputy secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, sat next to Hills for more than two hours during a dinner party at the recent Houston economic summit. Sato, 62, told friends he found Hills, 56, "easy to deal with if you lull her with the Oriental way of life and philosophy." He later described Hills to reporters...
...movie's best performance comes from Yusaku Natsuda, who portrays an upstart crime boss named Sato. Like Douglas, Natsuda gets little help from the screenwriters. Nonetheless, he creates one wicked character in Sato. Anyone who sees the film won't forget Natsuda's grisly digital sacrifice in the next-to-last scene...
Neither project has received an official go-ahead, but the Japanese government has set up task forces in several ministries to think about underground cities. Says Nobuhiko Sato, a high-ranking planner at the Construction Ministry: "The time has come to consider urban planning from the vertical viewpoint. Underground development has a great and realistic potential for alleviating congestion...
...world map -- and the rest of the world on Japan's map. Takeshita's slight international experience is a painful shortcoming. His penchant for the slow process of consensus may also be a dangerous anachronism, the product of an age that Tokyo seems to have outgrown. Says Seizaburo Sato, a political scientist at the University of Tokyo: "If Takeshita had been elected in the 1960s, he would have been a very fine Prime Minister. But unfortunately he comes too late...
...Vicki Sato '68, a Japanese American and a former Harvard instructor, said that despite her affection for Harvard, during her years at the University, she never felt that an active Asian student community existed. Sato said Asian students need to be more aggressive in that regard. "We're not just passing through providing cultural diversity for others," she said...