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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...
Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People and War is more subtle. It describes how the animals in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo were put to death by their keepers for fear that the bombing of Tokyo might set them free in the city. The Japanese protagonists, the zoo keepers, are portrayed most tenderly. There is not a hint, not a word about the motivation--let alone the humanity--of those manning the "enemy planes...
...UENO PARK, IN TOKYO, was ordained by the Meiji Emperor in the late 19th century as a public space in which Japanese could pay homage to ancient shrines and native traditions. Nowadays, it is a mess of illegal Iranian immigrants selling phony telephone cards and cocaine. The statue of Takamori Saigo, a Meiji-era samurai, is surrounded by junkies seeking out teriyaki (heroin) or shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine). Indeed, when Choco Bon- Bon, star of such Japanese porn classics as Tales of a Hard Banana, needs a fix, he goes shopping in Ueno and then goes home to the Hotel...
...Ueno who surprises many--with her gentleness as well as her academic and scholarly prowess. Choquette describes her as "endearing," McKinsey as "poised and mature," and Peterson as the type of person who "goes out of her way to be polite and helpful." A living alarm clock who helped her roommate make it to House crew practice all through spring semester, this quiet studious soul is sure to carry her confident and insatiable inquistitiveness into whatever she endeavors...