Word: takeshi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaigning for next Sunday's parliamentary election, however, Kasumigaseki has come under attack as never before. Every participating political party is demanding deep reforms to curtail the power of the ministries. "Japan's political dynamism is such that if everyone starts saying the same thing, something will happen," says Takeshi Sasaki, a professor of politics at the University of Tokyo. "This election could create a national consensus for reform." Indeed, even Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, whose Liberal Democrats were in cahoots with the bureaucrats for decades, has promised to cut the 22 ministries in half if his party manages...
...first episode is the old tale of the innocent policeman and the blond killer. She (Brigitte Lin) sells heroin to some sharks from India; he (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is moony about a girl who left him "because I've become more and more unlike Bruce Willis." But he can't let go. His girl liked pineapples, so each day he buys a can that expires at the end of the month, then eats all 30 in a binge of self-pity. By the time he runs into the blond, her drug deal has gone sour. Does he catch her, or even...
...Ryan Takeshi Sakamoto...
...Japan? The answer is shifting power. Unlike the long-ruling L.D.P., Hosokawa and his coalition are not beholden for their Diet seats to the ubiquitous nokyo (agricultural cooperatives). Moreover, under his reforms, the country's shrinking number of rice farmers will exercise still less influence in the future. Says Takeshi Sasaki, a political scientist at the University of Tokyo: "The old consensus was always to put domestic issues like rice first, but now political reform is breaking that consensus down. Also, when you are getting white-collar unemployment, you can't afford to protect rice growers anymore...
Business and Social Networks in China, 1644-1949--Takeshi Hamashita, professor at the institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo. Room 102, Sever Hall...