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...Suetsugu, who was beaten in the semifinals of the 200-m race at Sydney four years ago, has come a long way in honing his nanba technique. First introduced to him by coach Susumu Takano (whose 1991 Japanese record in the 400-m still stands), Suetsugu's sumo-like stance in the starting block and stunning stride have become his trademarks. Favored by ancient Japanese assassins and swordsmen for minimizing stress on the body, nanba requires practitioners to run with the hand and foot on one side of the body moving in sync. (In normal locomotion, people swing the right...
...right thing, the theory goes, out of fear of social censure; Westerners navigate by a moral compass guided by absolute standards. The Thirteen Steps, a thoughtful new film by director Masahiko Nagasawa, shows that Japan is not so easily pigeonholed. Based on an award-winning detective novel by Kazuaki Takano, The Thirteen Steps wrestles with the thorny issues of capital punishment, personal redemption and the value of human life. Its heroes are driven by the quandary of what to do when their sense of justice remains unsettled despite having been exonerated by society. In other words, the film tackles...
...going to have a tremendous incentive to grapple with the deficit and the debt and the economy," Takano says...
...these are minor concessions to make for the chance to be a part of the 103rd Congress, which has a unique opportunity to change the country. The next Congress, Takano believes, will be led by newly elected members, many of whom will have unconventional approaches like...
...Takano says he believes in the idea of citizen legislators, and if elected, he doesn't intend to stay too long ("I don't have the megalomaniac Harvard complex," he says). He says he expects to one day return to the classroom, just as soon as he can win the reforms he wants in education and the environment...