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...next day, Phillips received a call on her cell phone from a man who spoke in a thick accent and identified himself as Akira Takagi. He told her: "Lucie has joined a newly risen cult. She is safe and training in a hut in Chiba...
None of these perfervid cultural make-overs, however, has driven the music itself to any heights of personal expression. "Chemical material don't you shudder?/ Something awful is happening we don't suspect" is one kick-butt refrain from Takagi Kan's Hip Hip Fork. "We can't control MSG/ Our tongue has become paralyzed." Takagi declares that his song is mainly "about MSG companies trying to make a lot of money in Asia," though there seems little risk that he will get boiled as Ice T did in America over his Cop Killer track...
...ailing monarch. Since September, when the aging Emperor was first stricken with internal hemorrhaging, he had remained in a second-floor bedroom of his residence within the walled, moated and heavily wooded grounds of the Imperial Palace. A victim of duodenal cancer, he grew weaker each day. Dr. Akira Takagi rushed into the palace within minutes of the summons, followed closely by Crown Prince Akihito and his wife Crown Princess Michiko, then by Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. At 6:33 a.m. Emperor Hirohito, once worshiped by the Japanese people as a living god, died...
...phenomenon of seppuku, or ritual disembowelment, in the 17th to 19th centuries, and the kamikaze pilots of World War II. Assuming the blame and resigning is also a deeply rooted practice, even when the person in charge may not have made the mistake. In 1985, for example, Yasumoto Takagi stepped down as president of Japan Air Lines after one of his company's jets crashed into a mountainside, killing 520 people...
Oklahoma State (12th) will square-off against Kentucky (6th) in both teams' first match. Jane Wood and Monika Waniek, the nation's ninth-ranked doubles team will lead the way for the Cowboys. The Wildcats will look to Sonia Hahn and Tamaka Takagi to lead the way in singles...