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...fight, of course, is over men. American men are thought to be kinder, more expressive and more romantic than their Japanese counterparts. "Really?I can't remember the last time I went out with a Japanese guy," says Yoko Taniguchi, an accountant on base. She's taking a break from the dance floor at the club Slum, where the tanned, pretty 30-year-old in newly braided cornrows and tight FUBU capris can't help but be swarmed by men. "American men?they make much better boyfriends." Some women simply fall in love. A few might desire marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Okinawa Nights | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...continued probing the crash of JAL's doomed Flight 123 and searching for many still missing bodies. Bereaved families of six of the victims received some small comfort last week: notes penned by loved ones just moments before the plane went down. "Machiko, take care of the kids," Masakatsu Taniguchi wrote to his wife. From Keiichi Matsumoto, there were three words for his two-year-old son: "Tetsuya, become respectable." Former JAL Employee Mariko Shirai, 26, could only scribble: "Scared, scared, scared, help, feel sick, don't want to die." Kazuo Yoshimura offered his wife the simple encouragement "Hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters Never a Year So Bad | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...only a tiny amount, the cumulative output can be substantial. Biogen's accomplishment, brought off by Swiss Molecular Biologist Charles Weissmann and his international team of colleagues, was to re-engineer E. coli so that it would produce largely complete molecules of human leukocyte IF. At Harvard, Biochemist Tadatsugu Taniguchi, who first isolated an interferon gene while at the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, and Molecular Biologist Mark Ptashne seem on the verge of getting their restructured E. coli to spew out human fibroblast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big IF in Cancer | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...Lubang to hunt down Onoda. When the two men finally met in a remote jungle clearing, the lieutenant laid down his condition: "Only in case my commanding officer rescinds my order in person will I surrender." Last weekend Suzuki returned to Lubang accompanied by former army Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, 63, a Kyushu bookseller who had been Onoda's last military superior. Dressed in a shapeless cap and a tattered uniform and clutching his old regulation infantry rifle, Onoda stood at attention as Taniguchi read out an Imperial Army order dating from September 1945: "As of this moment, all officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Hiroo Worship | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

Concentrating for Efficiency. The Toyobo-Kureha combine is the first instance in which the ailing industry has adopted the drastic solution that the government has been urging: concentration of capital and increased efficiency through merger. "We should have done this a long time ago," says Toyobo President Toyosaburo Taniguchi, 64, who will head the new venture with the assistance of Kureha's Kyoichi Ito, 51. The new company, which will keep the name Toyobo, will have a combined capital of $51 million and 32,000 employees in 33 mills. The merger, almost sure to be followed by others, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Trying to Spin Out of Trouble | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

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