Word: tanaka
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According to Bolden-Kramer, a ’98-00 graduate named Ian Simmons, who during his years at Harvard was part of the Living Wage Campaign, the Undergraduate Council and the Philips Brooks House, was instrumental in sparking initial talks with HSF. According to Simmons, Aaron Tanaka ’04—a cofounder of HSF—approached FCL with a proposal last summer, and discussions about 45 Mt. Auburn have been going on since...
...groups signed on as allies, the HSF coalition functions as the United Nations of all political, cultural and “socially conscious” organizations on campus. Its principals — Rachel Bolden-Kramer ’06, Michael Gould-Wartofsky ’07 and Aaron Tanaka ’04 — are in the midst of securing a house at 45 Mt. Auburn Street, and in addition to another school-wide conference this spring, they are planning to host regular “alternative parties,” open mics...
...three-page story describes, in rather boring detail, how the woman had married despite the objections of her parents, yet recently divorced after just one year of marriage. It's all pretty tame, but in addition to the privacy issue, Manako happens to be the daughter of Makiko Tanaka, a former Foreign Minister...
...Japanese Supreme Court ruling allows a court to suspend a publication when its content is false, or when it causes "irreparable damage" to its subject with no benefit to the public interest. Few critics of the district court's decision defend the Tanaka story as being in the public interest, but many find the drastic action over such an innocuous revelation a blow to free speech. While an editorial in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper condemned the magazine story as intrusive and sensationalistic, it simultaneously called the injunction "a radical and dangerous departure" from the "rigorous restrictions on courts banning publications...
...There is a long history between the Tanaka family and Bungei Shunju, Bunshun's parent publishing company. In 1974 the monthly Bungei Shunju ran an expos? of a bribery scandal that ultimately toppled Kakuei Tanaka, Makiko's father and one of the most influential Prime Ministers in Japanese history. And just two years ago, Shukan Bunshun's special report on alleged fraud by the then Foreign Minister Makiko drove PM Junichiro Koizumi to remove her. (A court threw out charges stemming from the story, which accused Makiko of pocketing her secretary's salary...