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...time of his breakthrough, Nakamura was an unknown engineer without a Ph.D. working for a tiny Japanese electronics company on Shikoku Island. His colleagues would tell him, "'You should quit. You wasted all our research money for 10 years,'" Nakamura remembers. "That just pissed me off. So I figured, if I'm going to quit anyway, I might as well do the research I've always wanted...
Kyoji Takubo gazes at the spectacular screen paintings surrounding him?201 floral studies on a field of luminous gold?and declares that this was the place where he decided to become an artist. Growing up in Kotohira, a backwater town on Shikoku island in southern Japan, he rarely gave any thought to art. But one of his best friends was the son of the head priest of Kotohira-gu, commonly called Konpira, an important Shinto shrine that is the town's great pride and that is said to date back more than 2,000 years. So Takubo spent...
...teahouse on the lake where you can rent tatami and shoji at lunchtime." For the ultimate spiritual experience, Marino loves the sight of the pilgrims--or o-henro-san--in white gowns and large straw hats walking the 1,000-mile pilgrimage of the 88 temples on Shikoku Island, outside Tokyo. "These days, very few people still walk," says Marino. "Most prefer taxis, private cars or buses." That's modern Tokyo. --By Kate Betts
When the roommates finally met in Japan, they traveled together to an island called Shikoku, where they spent six days living in a 300-year-old peasant hut and working the land...
Which is exactly why younger boys love it. The craze isn't limited to fad-mad Tokyo; in a large toy store on the southern island of Shikoku, every Yu-Gi-Oh card and Yu-Gi-Oh Game Boy game is sold out. "I get swarms of kids from the elementary school next door," says Mitsuaki Muraoka, the shop's manager. "On weekends, parents come in with pieces of paper on which they've written the word yu-gi-oh." Since Konami introduced them in 1999, the company has sold 3.5 billion cards; 7 million computer games have been sold...