Word: ueno
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...years isn't a mere recession, and the rising sun doesn't inevitably follow the dark of night. "Everybody's afraid because we know we are getting poorer, day by day," says Yoshiharu Nakashima, who ought to know: he's a pawn-shop owner in Tokyo's Ueno district. When U.S. President George W. Bush visits next week, he'll undoubtedly spend some backroom time telling the Japanese to get their acts together. His host will be Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who achieved rock-star popularity by promising to do just that, but whose public support vanished this month when...
...each year -- are still refusing to fly. They're shirking not only destinations in America but in Asia and Europe as well, tearing a big chunk out of the $500 billion global travel and tourism industry. "Last year, we booked 17.8 million trips overseas -- the most ever," says Hiroshi Ueno of Japan Travel Bureau, the nation's leading travel agent. "This year, we were on target for 18.3 million. But after the flood of cancellations, that's an impossible goal...