Word: takagi
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...under Abe the quarter-century old kidnappings are increasingly taking precedence over the North Korean nuclear program on Japan's foreign policy agenda - and that is not healthy. His administration has connected Japan's tough sanctions against North Korean trade not to nuclear weapons, but to the kidnappings. Tsuyoshi Takagi, chairman of the Japanese Diet's special committee on abductions, recently told TIME that the kidnappings actually present a more significant danger to Japan than North Korean nuclear weapons because Pyongyang's missiles are merely a potential threat. The abductions, he says, were a "real physical attack" on Japan...
...Japan's leading business federation, to raise wages. But Keidanren head Fujio Mitarai has rebuffed those calls, lobbying the government instead to lower corporate tax and raise the consumption tax, shifting more of the financial burden to ordinary workers. "In his heart Abe feels consideration for households," says Tsuyoshi Takagi, president of the nearly 7-million-strong Japanese Trade Union Confederation. "Yet he's pushing reforms for [the benefit of] business. People are disappointed...
...TAKAGI FOR TIME...
Whatever the eventual findings, Yasumoto Takagi, 73, the president of JAL, assumed full responsibility for the tragedy and told Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone that he would resign. Nakasone made no effort to dissuade him. High officials in Japan, whether governmental or private, consider it ethically mandatory to leave office when something goes disastrously wrong, even if they were not directly responsible...
...Nagoya Gals," a look that swept Japan last year when Tokyo fashion bible JJ gave it its stamp of approval. "Nagoya Gal Kits" flew off Tokyo department-store shelves, and toymaker Takara released a "Nagoya Gal" edition of Rika-chan, the Japanese equivalent of Barbie. Says Maiko Takagi, editor of Nagoya fashion magazine Trend: "People in Tokyo are paying attention to what we do like never before. After being ignored for so long, it is a little weird...