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...score of 100. So, for example, costs run almost 24% higher in Japan. The U.S. ranked No. 7, as it did two years ago, when the survey was previously conducted. Among major cities, Montreal, Melbourne and Toronto proved most affordable. On the other end of the scale, Yokohama, Japan; Frankfurt, Germany; and London cost the most. And then, for the true tightwad, there is the cheapest of the cheap: Sherbrooke, a city of 138,000 in Quebec. Everyone say bon marche...
...last song he wants to hear from his car radio or earphones is his company's anthem, or shaka, the corporate tune that employees are forced to sing at year-end parties and sometimes even during morning calisthenics in the factory yard. Pity, therefore, the workers of Yokohama-based Nihon Break Kogyo. After its anthem was played on a popular midnight variety show, Asahi TV's Tamori Club, so many listeners responded with requests for copies that the company decided to release the song as a single. It debuted last week at No. 22 on Oricon's weekly...
...salaryman heads home each evening, the last song he wants to hear on his car radio or television is his corporate anthem, the tune he is compelled to sing at year-end parties or, even worse, while performing morning calisthenics in the factory yard. Pity, therefore, the workers of Yokohama-based Nihon Break Kogyo Co. After a popular midnight variety show, Asahi TV's Tamori Club, played its shaka [anthem], the company was bombarded with feedback from viewers until it finally decided to release the song as a single. It debuted last week at No. 22 on the Oricon weekly...
...Akutagawa Award, one of Japan's highest literary honors, in 2000. In 1998 Takei released the art book Slash With a Knife by Yoshitomo Nara, long before Nara became one of Japan's top painters. The film Hush!, which Takei helped market, has received numerous awards, including the Yokohama Film Festival 2001 grand prize. His freshest discovery is Rinko Kawauchi. Takei simultaneously published three books by this then-unknown female photographer in 2001; later that year Kawauchi received the prestigious Kimura Ihei Memorial Photo Award and the Photographic Society of Japan's Newcomer's Award...
...Affable and self-effacing, Matsui certainly has the quickest smile east of Yokohama. On this brisk, autumn afternoon in downtown Tokyo, he wears it with a black velvet blazer, a black silk shirt and the gold peace medallion his wife, Mio, gave him in October for his 28th birthday...