Word: takei
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...Masakazu Takei, who assumes the sartorial swagger of a Japanese gangster, is not someone to be feared. He is founder and president of Little More, a company that not only publishes hit novels, magazines and art and photography books but also produces films and plays, releases CDs, runs a gallery and curates exhibitions around the world...
...Minami Aoyama neighborhood, not far from the cozy gallery he opened four years ago to exhibit the paintings of cutting-edge actor Tadanobu Asano. "I like this outfit, and I don't want to change for anyone. I realize it's unusual, but I like to break the rules," Takei says in his thick Osaka dialect...
...head by selling to the demographic previously written off by traditional publishers as the manga market. He published the poetry book Ejiki by singer-actor-writer Kou Machida seven years before the writer received the Akutagawa Award, one of Japan's highest literary honors, in 2000. In 1998 Takei released the art book Slash With a Knife by Yoshitomo Nara, long before Nara became one of Japan's top painters. The film Hush!, which Takei helped market, has received numerous awards, including the Yokohama Film Festival 2001 grand prize. His freshest discovery is Rinko Kawauchi. Takei simultaneously published three books...
...Growing up in Osaka's rough Nishinari ward, Takei was a small-time punk, pulling pranks such as throwing fireworks through neighbors' windows. Fine art "sounded too sophisticated and profound to me. I felt, like, 'What the hell is art?'" recalls Takei...
...It’s the wrong way to go about fighting terrorism,” said Somerville, Mass., resident Carl Takei. “We need to protect the country by doing things that are consistent with our national values...