Word: yamaguchi
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Yakuza gang bosses in Japan give interviews on TV, dine openly with politicians and traditionally hand out business cards, so everyone knows how to find them. Roughly 40,000 mobsters belong to the Yamaguchi-gumi alone. Everybody knows that the yakuza get money from bars and restaurants, construction companies, even private-detective agencies. But these days some of their principal businesses include securities trading and management consulting. They are increasingly, Jake Adelstein tells us in his gripping descent into the underworld, Tokyo Vice, like bankers "with guns...
...chicken. She also develops a taste for the things humans eat. Mmmm, ham! - more savory than plankton. And in one of the film's many wonderful vignettes, she enjoys her first sip of honeyed tea. Ponyo is accepted into the household by Sosuke's mother Lisa (Tomoko Yamaguchi), who works in a Senior Center; the boy's father, Koichi (Kazushige Nagashima), is a fisherman whose job keeps him at sea for nights on end. Absent parents, absent children: the theme of Ponyo...
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...controls the lower house, and the DPJ, whose members won a surprise majority in the upper house in elections last July. With Fukui's departure looming, politicians have been unable to reach agreement on a successor, with some DPJ lawmakers saying they prefer former deputy Central Bank governor Yutaka Yamaguchi. Business leader Mikio Wakatsuki, chairman of AXA Life Insurance of Japan, told reporters this week that it was "a national disgrace that this issue remains unresolved...
...Life: An American in the Heart of Japan, tells the unlikely story of how a boy born in Brooklyn in 1922 grew increasingly drawn to a country that many in his generation would know only as an enemy to fear and conquer. Lovingly illustrated by the artist Akira Yamaguchi, the book limns a life inseparably linked to its dominant passion. "I sometimes think," Keene writes, "that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left...