Word: takato
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...later?not at another smoky Ginneko gathering, but on television screens worldwide as one of three Japanese hostages taken captive in Iraq last week by a previously unknown group called the Mujahedin Brigade. The kidnappers' warning, which came with a video showing the blindfolded hostages?two humanitarian workers (Nahoko Takato and Imai) and a photographer (Soichiro Koriyama)?surrounded by armed men, was chillingly clear: "Three of your sons have fallen into our hands. We offer you two choices: Either pull out your forces or we will burn them alive...
...Like all good populists, Tanaka keeps campaigning, performing in his glass cage and pressing the flesh with fans. In March, more than 800 people came out to Takato, a town in the Japan Alps of 7,300, to see him. "They say I'm a dictator," he said, drawing laughter and applause from the adoring crowd, which listened for three hours as he railed against the prefectural legislators, the $13 million of debt the Nagano government has piled up, the dam projects and his attempts to hire more teachers and provide more services for the handicapped. Then he told...
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