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Critics and store buyers have come to view fashion shows by Japanese designers - including Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo for Comme des GarCons - as moments of calm and intellectual stimulation in fashion weeks too often filled with mundane clothes and headline-grabbing shock theatricals. Yet despite the dramatic impact of the great Japanese designers over the past 20 years, they remain niche players in the industry. Although no one disputes the artistry and creative brilliance of the major Japanese talents, young Americans and Brits are the ones who have been named to take over the great Paris fashion houses...
...with what in Japan passes for a populist revolt. The 59-year-old with tousled hair and a fondness for rock music promises to revamp the LDP, pack his cabinet with fresh faces, force some bitter medicine on Japan's ailing banks and - if necessary - send Japan into recessionary shock in order to save...
...Dusting off the “grown-up” heroes of my childhood, it was a shock to learn that I had lapped them all. Nancy Drew (don’t laugh) is as perpetually 18 as her strawberry blond hair and two-dimensional storylines; Jane Eyre is 19 when she reunites for good with a late-thirty-something Mr. Rochester (why did that always seem romantic before?); and the life crises of Holden Caulfield and Esther Greenwood have come and gone by 20. Worse yet, Romeo and Juliet (at approximately 16 and 14, respectively) are practically prepubescent...
...sinking of the Ehime Maru resonated around the world. It was the first major foreign policy challenge for the newly installed Bush Administration. In Japan it contributed to the fall from power of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who shocked public opinion by continuing a golf game even after he heard of the accident. The Pentagon fretted about damage to the already fragile military alliance with Japan. The Japanese families of the nine dead were left in shock and grief. But at the center of the affair has been the tragic figure of Scott Waddle, a complex character who exudes self...
...there's a big push to keep riots civil. Check out the latest in crowd-control tech: beanbag guns, Spidey-style Webshots that launch Kevlar nets, PepperBall shooters and tasers that fire probes charged with a 50,000-volt shock. The heavy-duty stuff is yet to come: the U.S. military is developing a microwave gun whose beam feels like burning, and it's toying with sonic weapons that emit sound waves strong enough to knock you over or vibrate your internal organs to the point of nausea. By the way, Quiet Riot is still around; catch them touring...