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...Heizo Takenaka blows into his small outer office, flying in from the hall with a crew of eager aides in tight echelon. He shakes hands, fires off a roomful of smiles and gestures toward his private office: "Let's talk." Perhaps he needs a moment to return some phone calls, to handle some paperwork? He has, after all, just come from an urgent meeting with new Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. "No." He turns and walks quickly into his tennis court-size office, rattling the orchid pots that sit next to his door. Takenaka-san is in a hurry...
...line politicos who have run Japan for decades. And in an early sign of his thinking, he has turned over economic-policy management not to the Ministry of Finance, an organization that is the ne plus ultra of bureaucratic lethargy and intellectual suicide, but to the fast-moving Takenaka, 50, a U.S.-inspired economist and academic...
...hilarious, "Shall We Dance?" is bound to tickle the most staid viewer. It makes abundant, admittedly effective use of stock comic devices and characters. Eriko Watanabe cuts a droll figure as the experienced but caustic and somewhat unattractive dancer whom Sugiyama agrees to partner in an amateur competition; Naoto Takenaka hams it up as a painfully self-conscious colleague who dons a wig and hurls himself with fiendish gusto into the rhumba; Sugiyama's two fellow dance-pupils--one short and hyper, one big and docile--offer some great moments of physical comedy. Amusing, too, are the private investigators whom...
...Masao Takenaka, 36, professor of Christian social ethics at Kyoto's Doshisha University, deplored the prevalence of what he called the four Ds of Christianity: "divided, dependent, derived and dated." Cried he: "I cannot conscientiously sell such Christianity to my dearest friends. Modern man is sick and tired of hearing propaganda. He is anxious to meet people who will participate in his struggle. I feel the presence of Christians in the secular world is very important." Dr. Takenaka brought up a problem that was raised again and again among the younger churches-that of making Christianity indigenous...
Takashi R. Higuchi '39-'34 M. Arch., Takenaka Komuten Co., Ltd., Tokyo...