Word: tetsuya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...companies think they have an answer: huge developments beneath the earth's surface where millions of people could work, shop and, perhaps eventually, make their homes. "An underground city is no longer a dream. We expect it to actually materialize in the early part of the next century," says Tetsuya Hanamura, the chief of Taisei Corp.'s proposed development...
Schools also remain faithful to a traditional notion: the nail that sticks up must be hammered down. When Sixth-Grader Tetsuya Osawa returned to Tokyo from New York City, he encountered hostility. Classmates ridiculed his Americanized way of shrugging his shoulders in answer to questions and his practice of opening doors for girls. Osawa's teacher informed the boy's mother he must "act like a Japanese person." In short order, Osawa developed a stress-related ulcer and had to be transferred to a private international school. Adults hardly fare better. Says Koji Kato, chief researcher at the National Institute...
...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 in there." And from Hirotsugu Kawaguchi, there was a 17-sentence letter to his three children that was alternately...