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...Saturday, April 24, the HFA screened one of Ozu’s silent films, I Was Born, But... (Umarete Wa mita karedo) the way audiences would have seen it in the 1930s: a live benshi performed while the movie played on the screen. During the silent film era in Japan, benshi served as narrators to the on-screen action, playing a key part in popularizing motion pictures throughout the country. Saturday’s performance will come from Midori Sawato, one of the few remaining practicing benshi in the world. The live narration is a performance...
...Rangoon has grown seedier without becoming more prosperous. Karaoke pickup joints have spread like a nasty rash across the city from their original reserve in Theingyi Bazaar, a multistory firetrap of sex clubs run by Wa and ethnic-Chinese drug traffickers under the protection of Burmese military intelligence. Even the few positive changes seem, on closer inspection, not much to shout about. For example, Rangoon now boasts a dozen or so cybercaf?s, but they charge a dollar an hour?more than the average daily wage?and deny access to hundreds of sites deemed "inappropriate." Who surfs what is easy...
...What wealth exists in Mandalay belongs to Chinese immigrants, who arrived in their hundreds of thousands in the 1990s and now dominate the city's commercial life?much to the resentment of its original residents. The city is also a favored refuge of Wa and Chinese drug traffickers, who cruise the city's free-for-all intersections in dark-windowed late-model Land Cruisers and Pajeros. Like native Mandalayans, I negotiated the streets by bicycle or trishaw, or else flagged down a 40-year-old Mazda B600 taxi, Burma's answer to the Trabant. Exploring the pot-holed backstreets...
...Wa NationAfter decades as Taiwan's undisputed ruler, the KMT is now struggling to define itself. It has jeopardized its image in the weeks following the March 20 presidential election by engaging in a divisive campaign to overturn the election result, which saw Lien lose by just 29,518 votes out of nearly 13 million. Last week, the face-off between the KMT and Chen's government remained at an angry impasse. The KMT and its chief "Pan-Blue" alliance partner, the People First Party (PFP), have petitioned the courts for a recount and squabbled with Chen and his Democratic...
...Kazuo is the Alex Rodriguez of the Japanese game," says Robert Whiting, author of You Gotta Have Wa, the definitive English-language book on Japanese baseball. Until announcing his plans to jump to the U.S. last week, Matsui was on his way to becoming his country's Cal Ripken Jr. His consecutive-games streak of 1,143 is the fifth longest in Japanese baseball history. "Matsui plays hurt and doesn't know where the trainer's table is," says Ted Heid, director of Pacific Rim operations for the Seattle Mariners. "I think he's going to be very, very successful...