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...baby can enliven even the blandest of people. "They have been so formal and subdued, they created a huge gap between the average Japanese and the royal family, which drove people to stop caring," says 34-year-old Toshiaki Ozeki, a gym instructor. But Ozeki is a royal convert now. Masako's miscarriage two years ago, Naruhito's obvious anger with the way the news media treated the tragedy and Saturday's successful birth all served to make the royals seem more human, more like Ozeki and his girlfriend, who cope day in and day out with life...
...locks swirling high above his head and cascading down the back of his neck, brushing over his shirt collar. The rakish look of the tall, angular 59-year-old enhances his image as an iconoclast, a romantic lead actor storming the stage of Japan's crusty political establishment. As Toshiaki Okazaki, a 59-year-old whale-meat vendor, said while Koizumi campaigned near his stall in Kita-Kyushu recently: "So many of them have deceived us. At least Koizumi brings new blood...
...good news is that this is changing; disclosure has become a popular mantra. The corporate scandals have given rise to a slew of shareholders' lawsuits. In 1994 Toshiaki Takahashi formed a national group of "citizens' ombudsmen" to combat corruption and gain access to the government's books. His organization has brought down officials for everything from construction-bid rigging to faking expense receipts. "The need for public disclosure has finally begun to disseminate," said Takahashi in a recent speech...
...different plan to deal with impending climate change, and each--despite a spate of preconference workshops held during the past few months in an effort to narrow the differences--sticking to its guns. "I'm confident that some kind of agreement will be worked out in Kyoto," says Toshiaki Tanabe, Japan's ambassador for global environmental affairs. But there is every likelihood, in fact, that the U.N.-sponsored conference will accomplish nothing substantive...
...stopped one match to complain that the ball was too soft and not really round, took half an hour, examined 192 balls before he continued his play for the men's singles title. The winner: Japan's Ichiro Ogimura, in an all-Japanese final against Defending Champion Toshiaki Tanaka...