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...rate hike is by no means guaranteed?the BOJ could wait until its next meeting in August or beyond. But 32 out of 41 analysts and traders surveyed by Reuters last week said they expect an increase at this week's meeting. Yasunari Ueno, chief market economist at Mizuho Securities, says, "I put the possibility for a hike this week at 80% to 90%." If it doesn't happen, there's nonetheless a widespread belief that it will inevitably do so in the next few months?and that the first rise will likely be followed by more...
...this country, it's unusual to see such critical opinions on the condition of women given freely. For a long time, I have not been proud of being a woman. It makes me want to cry out to all Japanese men, "We women are not birth-giving machines!" Kimie Ueno Nishinomiya, Japan...
...report on women in Japan [Aug. 29]. Here in Japan, few people have given such opinions fairly, so I have not been proud of being a woman for a long time. I want to cry out to all Japanese men: "We women are not birth-giving machines." Kimie Ueno Nishinomiya, Japan...
...Vowz presents an opportunity for Tokyo's youth to "wind down and enjoy a drink in religious surroundings," explains Fujioka, who is a member of the Jodo Shin sect. Like Ueno, he studied for four years to qualify for the monkhood, but now seems to have found his mission amid Vowz's barstools and cocktail shakers. There's plenty in the venue to remind him of a monastery, from a miniature butsudan shrine in the corner to Nepalese mandalas on the ceiling, the ever-present haze of incense and a powerful Bose woofer system playing the synthesizer-backed chants...
They drink, they smoke, they rarely get out of bed before 3 p.m. And they have cool hairdos. Hiroki Ueno, 23, and Yoshinobu Fujioka, 27, are not your typical Shinto-Buddhist monks, and their bar Vowz, tel: (81-3) 3353 1032, is not your average Buddhist enterprise either. Located in a former geisha precinct of Tokyo's Shinjuku ward, the bar is not known so much for spreading the good word as it is for its killer cocktails, liqueurs and sake...