Word: yen
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...role as a hardened journalist in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. The film, set in 1950s Vietnam, pits Caine against Brendan Fraser’s undercover American spy as Fraser vies for the affections of Caine’s Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen). Fraser’s intervention in the romance is intended to parallel the film’s other plot—a commentary on the early American efforts to eradicate communism in Vietnam. Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons) and Robert Schenkkan adapt Greene’s book, while Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof...
...typically for 10% of their cover price. Then employees clean the covers and sand the page edges (using machines Sakamoto designed) to give them a clean, unthumbed finish. The books hit the shelves at half the original price. Any book not sold after three months is slashed to 100 yen (about 85?). Sellers of new books, along with publishers and wholesalers, are powerless to fight back. By law they can't cut their own prices to compete. "He completely got us," says Akiro Kikuchi, president of publishing company Chikuma Shobo. "You've got to hand...
...Customers are impressed too. College student Kaoru Ikeda, 19, heads to her local Bookoff in Tokyo at least twice a week. "Here I can buy 10 manga comics for 1,000 yen [about $8.50]," she says. "In a regular bookstore they would cost me 4,000." Apart from the low prices, Bookoff is virtually indistinguishable from the regular bookstores in the area, and consumers don't seem to mind that its offerings aren't brand-new. "I just can't buy anything at a full-price store anymore, not when I know the same thing is here for less," Ikeda...
...role as a hardened journalist in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. The film, set in 1950s Vietnam, pits Caine against Brendan Fraser’s undercover American spy as Fraser vies for the affections of Caine’s Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen). Fraser’s intervention in the romance is intended to parallel the film’s other plot—a commentary on the early American efforts to eradicate communism in Vietnam. Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons) and Robert Schenkkan adapt Greene’s book, while Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof...
...helping the poor starving coffee farmers of the world. The “Fair Trade” seal is rarely on the pot or bag that I buy, and at the crack of dawn when I’ve just awoken or have yet to sleep, my yen for a good brew is much stronger than my remorse for Guatemala. It is the typical American consumer conundrum: what matters for me right now, versus what matters for everyone else in the world whom I will never meet...