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...feature in the new Prius that uses software to allow a car to parallel park itself while the driver doesn't even have to touch the steering wheel. This technology will be a big seller, especially for drivers like my mother, who faces many difficulties in parallel parking. Koji Yamazaki Toyohashi, Japan...
...Takashi Sorimachi plays Junichi Mikami, a somber young man finishing a three-year prison sentence for a bar fight that resulted in manslaughter. Shortly before the end of his term, he is released on parole at the behest of prison official Shoji Nango (played by wizened screen icon Tsutomu Yamazaki). Nango wants Mikami's help in a private investigation commissioned by an enigmatic client. Their mission: to clear a convicted murderer slated to hang in three months. It is a chance for both men to unburden themselves of their guilt?Mikami for the bar killing, Nango for taking part...
...Taku Yamasaki vowed to intervene. While Koizumi briefed the emperor at the Imperial Palace that evening, the three leaders and other LDP bosses confronted Takenaka behind closed doors in the Diet building. Takenaka left the meeting looking visibly pale. "This was poor leadership from Koizumi," says Mamoru Yamazaki, chief economist at Barclays Capital Management. "Takenaka was accused by the leading politicians of the Diet, and the Prime Minister wasn't protecting him." That evening, Takenaka said the publication of his plan was postponed till the end of October, though he later insisted that he wouldn't temper his proposals. Since...
...wonder some players want to leave. "I don't think the commissioner or management side are aware of it," says noted playwright Tetsu Yamazaki, a longtime fan. "But it's the freedom of the major leagues that is the most attractive thing for Japanese players...
...likelihood is that Japan will just muddle through, much in the same way the Japanese government has muddled through the past 10 recession-filled, confidence-depleting years. Says playwright Yamazaki, whose devotion to the Giants began to wane after Watanabe forced the free-agent system on the other owners in 1993: "Let Japanese players go to the States. That is good for Japanese baseball because someday they will come back and raise the level of the sport. Japanese baseball is like Japanese politics. One is dominated by the Giants, the other by the ldp. It will take time to liberate...