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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Yasuo Hamanaka Sumitomo Bank?s chief copper trader racked up losses of $2.6 billion in unauthorized deals over 10 years. He pleaded guilty to forgery and fraud, and is serving eight years in a Japanese prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rogues? Gallery | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...understand Yasuo Tanaka, you need a piece of slang you won't find in any Japanese-English dictionary. Pero-guri is a phrase Tanaka coined himself to describe the sexual act. More specifically, his sexual acts. It's an onomatopoeic word, the pero coming from the slang pero-pero, which means to lick. The guri comes from guri-guri, which means to grind. The 45-year-old Tanaka is Governor of Japan's mountainous Nagano prefecture, west of Tokyo, but he's also a writer, specializing in autobiographical pero-guri tales, which reveal a predilection for flight attendants, married women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grooviest Guv | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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