Word: yomiuri
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...worldwide reputation of Japanese baseball players but not for baseball in Japan. While Dice-K (a fratty phonetic rendering of Daisuke that has become his new American nickname) can't blow a bubble without the media watching, attendance at Japanese professional games has sagged. TV ratings for the Yomiuri Giants, by far the country's most popular team, are so low that the games are shown on delay, late at night. Younger Japanese are flocking to soccer, which has a hip local league spread out across the country. Pro baseball is seen as stagnant and uncompetitive, clinging blindly to bygone...
...South China Morning Post reported the previous day that the 35-year-old was living large in the Chinese territory an hour's ferry ride from Hong Kong. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun even ran a picture of Kim's distinctively pudgy progeny standing on a Macau street sporting sunglasses, a man purse and a smile on his face. As the Dear Leader's firstborn son, Jong Nam was once considered his father's probable successor. But after the 2001 Disney debacle, when he was stopped at Narita International Airport with a forged Dominican passport and then deported to China, Jong...
...South China Morning Post had reported the previous day that the 35-year-old was living large in the Chinese territory an hour's ferry ride from Hong Kong. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun had even run a picture of Kim's distinctively pudgy progeny standing on a Macau street sporting sunglasses, a man-purse and a smile on his face. As the Dear Leader's eldest son, Jong Nam was once considered his father's likely successor. But after the 2001 Disney debacle, when he was stopped at Narita Airport with a forged Dominican Republic passport and then deported...
...prominent postwar Prime Minister), and Abe himself has, in the past, fudged the issue of his country's responsibility for the Pacific war. Just how open that question remains in Japan was underscored last year by a lengthy investigation into responsibility for the war conducted by the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's biggest newspaper. (Short answer: the Japanese military and government, but not the emperor.) The equivalent exercise in the U.S. would be the New York Times devoting weeks to an investigation of who was at fault in the Civil...
...from the suicidal warrior ethos that ultimately drove Japan's military to lead the country into obliteration - witness the scene where a lieutenant orders his men to kill themselves with live grenades, and all but one does so. But as the reviewer Aaron Gerow pointed out in the Daily Yomiuri, Letters doesn't truly attempt to grapple with history; unlike its companion movie Flags of Our Fathers, which probed the long-term cost of war and remembrance. Watanabe put it this way in an interview with TIME last month. "This film is not a display of patriotism," he said...