Word: tomoko
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...drawing of a chicken. She also develops a taste for the things humans eat. Mmmm, ham! - more savory than plankton. And in one of the film's many wonderful vignettes, she enjoys her first sip of honeyed tea. Ponyo is accepted into the household by Sosuke's mother Lisa (Tomoko Yamaguchi), who works in a Senior Center; the boy's father, Koichi (Kazushige Nagashima), is a fisherman whose job keeps him at sea for nights on end. Absent parents, absent children: the theme of Ponyo...
...cabinet where early Greek and Egyptian antiquities are normally housed. But this day the biggest impression comes when Patricia Piccinini's mutant possum sculpture emerges-bearing impossibly lifelike wrinkles, hair and fangs-from its packing box. "With this work, we are now starting a new history," says exhibition coordinator Tomoko Nakayama...
...technological advances that make surrogacy safer and more reliable, Japan's conservative health-care establishment remains against it, partly out of fear that some women might become for-profit baby factories. "For safety and welfare reasons, the human body should not be used as a tool for reproduction," said Tomoko Kashiwagi of the Health Ministry. The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology opposes the practice in part due to the potential for "complication of family relationships." The ministry, meanwhile, is pushing for an outright ban. Women with reproductive dysfunction, says Kashiwagi, may simply "have to give up on biological children...
...including last year's The Smile Has Left Your Eyes and Beautiful Life. Her one-hour shows have been the top-rated hits in Japan and have gone into syndication in half a dozen countries. She's done it by scripting quirky, multidimensional characters such as the plucky Minami (Tomoko Yamaguchi), who rebuilt her life after her fianc? left her waiting at the shrine in Long Vacation, and Tell Me You Love Me's indefatigable Hiroko (Takako Tokiwa), who fell in love with a deaf painter...
...send paychecks home to support their families - much like the world's other economic nomads, the Philippine maids of Hong Kong or Turkish factory workers in Germany. "They'll look at a job in China even though the pay is half what they were making in Japan," says Tomoko Hata, a manager at a Tokyo employment agency. "It sounds very sad. But they're desperate...