Word: tanis
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...Judo events are once again expected to be dominated by Japan, which introduced the world to the sport at the 1964 Tokyo Games. Inoue, who is the captain of Japan's Olympic team, and Ryoko Tani?a ruthless martial-arts master who wears pink hair-ties?will lead the way. Meanwhile, South Korea is favored to excel in Taekwondo, although Taiwan and the rest of the world have been gaining ground since the sport debuted as a medal event in 2000. Olympic boxing can always count on a contingent of tiny tough guys from Thailand; 2003 world champ Somjit Jongjohor...
...JUDO When she was a teenage schoolgirl with an 84-match unbeaten streak, judo master Ryoko Tani was known as Ryoko Tamura; she changed her name last December when she married Japanese pro baseball player and fellow Olympian Yoshimoto Tani in a $3 million Paris wedding that was televised across Japan. Tani's popularity in her home country is as outsized as she is pint-sized, but that only makes the gold-medal pressure on the 1.46-m judoka all the more intense. She was upset in the 1992 and 1996 Games, having to settle for silver on each occasion...
...Davis, "that we show measurable, visible progress in terms of stability and reconstruction." A school or clinic built by the coalition, NGOs or local government can have a huge impact on a village, providing not only services but also a rebuttal to the Taliban's call to jihad. In Tani, a village in Khost province a few kilometers from the border with Pakistan, parents say school enrollment has doubled, and a 14-year-old boy excitedly describes a curriculum that now includes science, math and English. At a fruit stand in Logar province, Shakur, 60, says his village...
...craft beer, from one of the country's 300 or so microbreweries. And we're not just talking about local favorites; the popular Yona Yona Ale from Yoho Brewing in Nagano and Hitachino Nest Beer of Kiuchi Brewery have both won awards at international beer competitions. Microbrew aficionado Yasuhiro Tani got hooked while living in Texas; now the 46-year-old accountant only buys jibiiru, often over the Internet. "Regular beer is generally popular but banal," he says. "Craft beer is so various in ingredients, flavors and styles that there's always something new that breaks the conventions of what...
...century grave of a King from the Kaya dynasty. Koreans nicknamed Ogura the mole because he was so obsessed with buried treasure. Says Takasaki: "(Ogura) was one of the bad guys." A few dozen pieces are rotated through the display cabinets at a time, many marked "provenance unknown." Toyonobu Tani, head curator at the National Museum, says, "We take very good care of artifacts so they can be used for academic purposes by Japanese people and by Koreans and Chinese." He denies any knowledge of requests from the Korean government or individual Koreans for the return of any items...