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...stop publishing "Tales from the Crypt" and its sister titles in the early 1950s. Ito's chilling stories have some of the oddest premises in the genre. "Uzumaki," published in the U.S. by Viz in 2002, featured a town visited by a plague of spirals. "Gyo" starts out with Tadashi and his girlfriend Kaori on vacation at the coastal city of Okinawa. She's sensitive to smells and becomes overwhelmed by a powerful stench. Tadashi soon locates the source: a rotting fish with mechanical, insectoid legs that has crawled out of the sea and found its way into their bungalow...
...Tadashi and Kaori better stay in their room...
Over the coming days more of these weird, dead-yet-alive fish come rushing out of the ocean, overwhelming the city. Killer sharks roam the streets. Back home in Tokyo Tadashi's scientist uncle recalls hearing of a military experiment that went down at sea - a mutated germ that turned living creatures into noxious gasbags. These were attached to mechanical legs powered by the gas, and the two halves formed a symbiotic relationship. Soon the creatures find their way to Tokyo in search of new hosts, including Kaori, now infected by the germ. Her body slowly becomes a paralyzed, pustulated...
...taboo in December 2000 when he allowed public access to police records as a means to make government more transparent. Governor Masayasu Kitagawa of Mie prefecture unilaterally canceled a major nuclear power plant, a project as dear to Tokyo's planners as Nagano's dams. And in Tokushima, Governor Tadashi Ota won re-election in April 2002 by promising to stop construction of a giant sluice dam on the Yoshino River. In a recent referendum, 90% of Tokushima city voters opposed the dam. Nor is the trouble found only in outlying prefectures. Governor Akiko Domoto of Chiba, right on Tokyo...
...game console and its final assembly take place there. In fact, of more than 1,000 companies surveyed by the Japan External Trade Organization, 42% said they are considering shifting some or all of their manufacturing operations to the mainland. Labor is cheap, of course. But also, according to Tadashi Matsumoto, senior vice president in charge of manufacturing for Toshiba Corp., Chinese workers "are more highly motivated and harder working compared to the Japanese...