Word: setagaya
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...course, Simon McBurney had to try. His London-based Complicite theater group teamed up last year with Tokyo's Setagaya Public Theatre to tackle Murakami. ("Japan's Kafka," McBurney calls him.) The result, The Elephant Vanishes, has played to packed houses and rave reviews in Tokyo, New York and London. It opened at MC93 Bobigny in suburban Paris earlier this month, and it will soon move to the Power Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
...organizes yoga classes, computer seminars and clubs on university campuses--activities that don't at first reveal the nature of the religion--to attract unsuspecting recruits. Wherever the cult's identity emerges, trouble follows; towns across Japan have protested the group's presence. Outside its headquarters in Tokyo's Setagaya ward, neighbors have hung large banners: AUM GO AWAY...
...seemed for a while after Maeno, 29, took off, accompanied by a photo plane. But after half an hour of picture taking, Maeno radioed to his wingman that he had "something to do in Setagaya"-a Tokyo area that is home to Yoshio Kodama, the millionaire ultra-nationalist who had been Lockheed's principal go-between in its efforts to use bribes to help sell its planes in Japan...
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