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...Then, after reading Ima Ningen Toshite by Takeji Hayashi, he was inspired to write a letter to its publisher, Komichi Shobo Co., saying the book awakened him to reading. That connection led to a job at the small company. At 28, Takei went independent, publishing in 1989 the best-selling compilation Listen to My Story: The Blue Hearts, My Love, the authors of which included Banana Yoshimoto. Takei had yet to even rent office space...
...Japan, "and very cutting edge." Takahashi's detractors disagree. They insist he's more of a fashion DJ, sampling patterns and designs from others and mixing them up to create his own street style instead of developing a unique vision. "Takahashi doesn't think about originality," carps fashion critic Takeji Hirakawa, "only about copying...
...Chinese troops, which, firmly entrenched, defied the fierce onset of the Imperial Army. The Chinese soldiers raised strong defense works there during a month. A way had to be cut through these deadly obstacles for the Imperial troops. Three heroes of a Japanese sappers' corps, named Takeji Eshita, Jo Kitakawa and Inosuke Sakue, fastened to themselves a firing bomb three metres long and jumped into the wire entanglements. The bomb exploded with a loud detonation, smashing the three heroes and the barbed wire to pieces. These heroes died a desperate death, opening a way for the infantrymen to make...
Bowed with shame Governor Mitsunosuke Kamiyama of Formosa resigned, last week, to expiate the stigma cast upon his administration. President Takeji Kawamura of the South Manchurian Railway Co., laid down his duties as such last week, to pop into the vacated governorship...
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