Word: shoguns
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...both a place and a time frame. It was the old name of the city we call Tokyo, and "Edo period" denotes the 2 1/2 centuries during which an absolute regime, founded there in the early 17th century by the military lord, or shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ruled over all Japan through 15 generations of his descendants. The symbolic moment at which the period began to close was 1853, when Commodore Perry's black ships, crewed by their blue-eyed, spindle-nosed, strange-smelling gaijin, the Americans, sailed into lower Edo Bay and broke the seal of isolation from the West...
...certain inertia in the Japanese system. It has been a successful system. They are conservative by nature until they run up against a wall. It takes some time to forge a new consensus that something has to be done, and new directions agreed. Then the samurais go to the shogun, and off they go. I don't know how long this will take...
...very day that former Creative Artists Agency shogun Michael Ovitz was falling on his ears at Disney, his old outfit was literally rolling out the red carpet for a key element of its strategy to rule tomorrow's Tinseltown. Last Thursday marked the unveiling of the CAA/Intel Media Lab, CAA's bid for a thick slice of the growing PC-software pie and the strongest indicator to date that Hollywood and Silicon Valley's marriage of convenience might turn into true love after all. "We are all, like it or not, surfers on that growing [high-tech] wave," CAA president...
James Clavell, the best-selling author of "Shogun" died in Switzerland from a stroke. He was 69. Aside from being a successful novelist, the Australian-born Clavell also wrote the screenplay of popular movies such as "The Fly," "The Great Escape," and "To Sir With Love...
...SHOGUN. You paid for the book, you sat through the mini-series, now applaud the costumes, scenery and special effects. Oh, yes, there's also a musical going on, but despite the efforts of an able (and authentically Asian) Broadway cast, the show remains as passive and emotionless as the unseen puppet Emperor...