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...Yabusai Sousuke This was once the local ice and charcoal shop; today, with wooden walls beautifully restored, it is a public gallery and studio for young textile and hat designer Chie Yoshikawa. Tel: (81) 90-4420-2439, 1-2-16 Yanaka...
When the electronics firm Omron told plant manager Junichi Yoshikawa, 43, that he had to take a three-month sabbatical, he set up a vacation schedule with the same thoroughness that he shows at the office. He decided to travel overseas (to San Francisco and Los Angeles), practice golf and start his own consulting and sales firm in Japan -- and tackled each task with determination. "After two months off, I felt different," Yoshikawa recalls. "I felt that I could be more creative and break away from reality...
...border on the racist. Two years ago, when Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, who is of Japanese descent, chaired the Senate Select Committee in the Iran-contra hearings, Congress was bombarded with hate letters, telegrams and phone calls that assailed him as "that yellow bastard." Says Japanese-born Aki Yoshikawa, research director of the University of California's Berkeley Roundtable on International Economics: "There's definitely an element of racism among many people who criticize Japan. Something about Japan is alien to them...
...take an uncharacteristically disrespectful course: open rebellion. Youthful crime has jumped 12.4% in the past year, with juveniles accounting for almost half of all criminal offenders in Japan. Violence on school grounds has increased 42% since 1980, and most of the crimes are committed against teachers. In January at Yoshikawa High School near Tokyo, a gang of 20 students surrounded a group of teachers in the school courtyard, accused them of inflicting pain on one of their number and began to beat them up. It took 20 patrolmen to subdue the boys, but not before ten teachers had been injured...
...smaller fry; several of them were allegedly involved in funneling Lockheed cash to government officials. But with Tanaka's arrest, the scandal finally reached the top echelon of Japanese politics, a level of power and privilege that most Japanese had cynically felt was above prosecution. Said Seiichi Yoshikawa, a Tokyo lawyer, in describing the general shock: "People here have been resigned for a long time to the belief that big fish like Tanaka were immune to prosecution. So many of us banzaied to see that myth go to pieces...