Word: shinji
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Popular sounds are either innocuous imitations of ABBA-like Europop - like Yakushimaru's current No. 1 single, Be a Little Bit Gentle- and the derivative post-Beatles croonings of male stars like Shinji Tanimura and Motoharu Sano. Overwhehningly domestic in origin (Japanese performers account for about 70% of the record market), the pop world shows little sign of the some times violent creativity now rampant in the post-punk West...
...youths stood guard over the 122 other passengers, the leader, 27-year-old Takamaro Tamiya, pushed aside the stewardesses, who were handing out hot towels, and made his way into the unlocked cockpit of the tri-jet Boeing 727. At sword's point, he ordered Captain Shinji Ishida to set a course for the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, 625 miles away. Using the public address mike, the skyjackers warned that they carried bombs and would blow up the plane if their orders were not obeyed. In their belts and sticking out of their pockets were objects that...
...ponderous speaker but a man of steadying weight in a nation ready to take off in many directions. He reads "middlebrow" samurai novels (the Japanese equivalent of westerns), and watches with benevolence the careers of his two sons, Ryutaro, 38, an oil-company executive, and Shinji, 34, who works for the Nippon Kokan steel company. To the looks of a Kabuki actor, Sato adds a very calculating eye for his own position and a buoyant sense of balance when it comes to his party...
Going for Gold. No one took greater pleasure in the victory than Shinji Hi-raki, the company's founder and president-and no one has more confidence in Riccar's athletes. "I am sure that Yodasan will do better the next time," he said. Hiraki has a special reason for believing that playing games is good msiness. A third of his 18,000 employees take part in a company-sponsored after-hours sports program, and the top 100 or so athletes are housed in special dormitories and given practicing hours off with pay. Barring upsets and injuries, Riccar...
...girl takes his mind off his prayers. Hatsue is lithe and lovely, the winner among the women divers of an unofficial "best-shaped breasts" contest. A fleeting kiss on the beach is about all Shinji can hope for from Hatsue, since her father is a wealthy shipowner with small use for penniless apprentice fishermen. Author Mishima, who seems to have learned some of his flower-arranging from Hollywood, maroons the couple in an abandoned tower during a storm...