Word: shinobu
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...tall for a Japanese woman. When she speaks, people hear a great deep rumble with just a hint of grit. In a land where unmarried women are considered somehow incomplete, Doi remains steadfastly single. But the leader of the Japan Socialist Party has used her difference to advantage. Says Shinobu Tabata, her mentor at Doshisha law school in Kyoto: "She was big, loud and pushy to start with. I knew from the first day she came into my office that she would make a fine politician...
...Gravely, Asahi's board of directors met in emergency session, fired not only Nagaoka but his two superiors in Kobe, as well as the managing editor of Asahi's Osaka edition who had relayed the story. Nine other Asahi news executives caught blistering reprimands. Said lanky Kanichiro Shinobu, managing editor of the Tokyo edition and one of those reprimanded: "This is very embarrassing...