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Still, Dolly would be just a laboratory curiosity if no one could repeat Wilmut's breakthrough. And that's where Teruhiko Wakayama comes in. He's a 31-year-old Japanese postdoctoral student who was studying cloning as a hobby at the University of Hawaii, where his lab director, Ryuzo Yanagimachi, was famous for telling students "not to be afraid of asking crazy questions. The crazier the better...
...SEPT. 27, 1945, AS AN 18-YEAR-OLD member of the 98th Division, I was among many who made a beach landing close to the city of Wakayama, Japan. From there we were transported by rail to Osaka, where I began a year of Occupation duty. The propriety of the use of the atom bomb to bring about the surrender of the Japanese will be debated endlessly. But one thing is clear: we encountered no resistance as occupiers because the Japanese, a people of great discipline and national pride, responded to the dictates of their Emperor. Had the Emperor asked...
...Japanese firms are resigned to losing business to countries that participated in the fighting. Some companies doubt that Kuwait will give them a chance to fix equipment they built and installed themselves. "Repairs would be most efficiently done by the original supplier," says Yujia Wakayama, a spokesman for Toshiba, whose generators provided about half of Kuwait's electricity before the Iraqi occupation. "We are ready to cooperate if Kuwait requests it." But industry insiders concede that Kuwait may give the repair contracts to U.S. firms in recognition of America's leading role in liberating the country...
...movie's title suggests that its makers aspired to more than a good cop movie. The title comes from an exchange between Douglas and Tomisaburo Wakayama, who plays the mobster Sugai. When Douglas criticizes the mafioso's livelihood, Wakayama launches into a monologue on the horror of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings...
Though "black rain" actually fits nicely with Scott's dark vision of Tokyo, the exchange between Douglas and Wakayama comes out of nowhere. Perhaps we're supposed to sense the atom bomb beneath the frenetic violence of the rest of the movie. Perhaps Americans are to blame for the nasty pass things have come to in the Tokyo underworld. The point's not clear...