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With his fresh concepts of beauty, Uemura joined the generation of Japanese taste-makers who established the country's global influence in design and fashion. Among his contemporaries were the fashion designers Issey Miyake and Kenzo Takada, groundbreaking designers who, along with Uemura, however, continued the centuries-old tradition of Japanese males being the arbiters of female beauty. Men, for example, portrayed women's roles in kabuki plays since women were banned from the stage...
...HAPPY HUSTLE HIGH By Rie Takada Hanabi Oozora is a rambunctious 16-year-old tomboy and street urchin who comes to the rescue of her less assertive friends, sometimes in exchange for food. (March...
...hard to be against motherhood, but Japan, a country with a falling birthrate, may have found a way. When television variety-show host Aki Mukai and her husband, former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada, announced the birth of their twin boys last Tuesday, they drew fresh attention to the country's restrictive law surrounding surrogate mothers. Due to a 41-year-old Supreme Court ruling, Mukai, 39, can't be registered as the twins' biological mother, because the couple used a surrogate to give birth; to be recognized, she must legally adopt the twins...
...regular fare in porn magazines. Worldwide credulity and the enthusiasm of Western business moguls to import the fake trend, however, highlights the larger cultural issue of the “Asian Fetish.” Harvard-Radcliffe Japan Society spokesperson and Student Activities Council representative Sae Takada ’03 says, “I think it’s appalling how eagerly people believed it—it shows how Japanese pop culture, especially Japanese women, are exoticised in the eyes of the Western world...
...most successful in the market." LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault says of the Japanese, "They are further out. It's easier to get in touch with a Dutch designer or a British designer or even a New York designer when you are in Paris." Arnault did include Kenzo Takada in his group until Takada's retirement last year - when Frenchman Gilles Rosier took the helm of the Kenzo line...