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...village festival. In December 1999, a teenage assailant knifed and killed a seven-year-old boy on a school playground. Last August a 15-year-old newspaper-delivery boy stabbed six sleeping neighbors, killing three of them. In December a 17-year-old boy went berserk in Tokyo's Shibuya district, injuring eight strangers with a baseball...
...village festival. In December 1999 a teenage assailant knifed to death a 7-year-old boy on a school playground. Last August a 15-year-old newspaper delivery boy stabbed six sleeping neighbors, killing three of them. Last December a 17-year-old boy went berserk in Tokyo's Shibuya district, assaulting seven strangers with a baseball bat. "These children are at their cutest, sweetest age," Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said after Friday's massacre. "How can we deal with the fact that our safe society is beginning to collapse...
...deposit your coins and make your choice: dried squid or hair tonic, batteries or green tea, boxers or beer. It's all enticingly on display under the fluorescent lights of a truck-sized vending machine parked in the lobby of Tokyo's Shibuya Excel Hotel. The New Economy comes in a variety of offerings, and this is the ultimate in high-tech self-serve. Manufactured by Sanyo Electric, this fully automated mini-convenience store is part of a new generation of vending machines popping up in a country that's long been obsessed with coin-slot culture. Sanyo's Auto...
...accompany Admiral [Thomas] Fargo to meet the families [of the dead Japanese], but I was told by someone higher up that feelings were running high and that I should not go. So on Tuesday night last week [Feb. 27], I went to meet the Japanese Consul General, Minoru Shibuya, and Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Yoshio Mochizuki [who was visiting Hawaii], and I presented them with letters of apology to Prime Minister [Yoshiro] Mori and to the nine families of the deceased. I wanted them to see my face and know my apology and my emotions are sincere. In those...
Before a photo shoot at a shibuya studio, his managers warn of his mood swings. "After 20 minutes, he's going to get irritable," one of them predicts. Beat shows up right on time. He quickly changes into a sweater, introduces himself to the photographer and carefully looks over the cameras and the light meters and the flashes. Even here, he is in charge. "You know," says Masayuki Mori, the producer of his films, who is watching the shoot, "he doesn't really write his own books." Beat's impatience is legendary; he can't slow down long enough...