Word: yen
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Overseas, Murakami is more revered than ever. In Taiwan, a newspaper recently predicted that his face could one day grace a Japanese banknote, like the Meiji-era novelist Natsume Soseki, whose image appears on 1,000-yen notes. To such devotees, Murakami is not just another obscure Japanese writer. He is a great writer who just happens to be Japanese...
...worried Nihon University College of Art professor to land him a job at a local TV production company. He lasted two weeks. "Then I dropped out." He spent the next eight years wandering between Asian hotspots, touching down in Tokyo to reboot on new DAT technology and reload on yen and then blasting off again for the white label Gulf of Siam islands or Arabian Sea coast...
...unemployment rate would jump from 5.4% to 6.1%. And that tally doesn't include thousands of small and medium-sized businesses also likely to go belly-up. Indeed, bleaker estimates suggest that unemployment could spike to 10%. In Japan, that grim prospect is less palatable than trillions of yen in bad debt?not just to politicians but to the majority of Japanese citizens who vote for them...
...Today Yen is teaching ballet and is engaged to Hai. She is keen to act again. But if this Vietnamese Cinderella never does another film, she can always remember the day she traded her ballet slipper for a glass...
...Yen hired an English tutor, memorized the entire script in phonetic English, took four screen tests and got the part. (Boyfriend Hai also won a role in the film, as the rebel leader General The.) She was aided by a top acting coach: two-time Oscar-winner Michael Caine. "As they were putting in the clapperboard," Caine says, "we would still be whispering to each other what we were going to do and how we were going to move ... The girl at the end of the movie was like a consummate film actress...