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...worked in academia, Yamanaka by contrast has the no-nonsense air of the hybrid researcher/entrepreneur, a type that plays a big role in American stem-cell science. "He used to be an orthopedic surgeon, so he has a good sense in connecting his research to a practical application," says Yoshiki Sasai, a stem-cell scientist at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe. "He's like a venture [capitalist]. He couldn't do big-scale research, so he narrowed his focus and gave everything...
MARRIED. PRINCESS SAYAKO, 36, only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan, and her childhood friend, urban planner YOSHIKI KURODA, 40; in a small ceremony attended by their families; in Tokyo. In preparation for her new life--it's the first time an Emperor's daughter has wed a commoner--she took driving lessons and practiced supermarket shopping...
MARRIED. PRINCESS SAYAKO, 36, only daughter of Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, to YOSHIKI KURODA, 40, a city planner and childhood friend; in Tokyo. Sayako loses her royal status by marrying a commoner and will move out of the Imperial Palace to a rented one-bedroom apartment. The former Princess has quit her job as an ornithological researcher to practice her cooking and learn to drive before becoming a housewife. She will pay taxes and no longer receive a royal stipend, although she will be given a lump sum of $1.3 million to start her new life...
ENGAGED. PRINCESS SAYAKO, 35, to Yoshiki Kuroda, a 39-year-old government employee; in Tokyo. The princess, who is the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, drew praise from many single Japanese women for her decision to delay marriage until she found the right partner. Her fianc? is an urban planner for the Tokyo metropolitan administration and is reported to be a close school friend of the princess's elder brother, Prince Fumihito...
...strayed far from the established aesthetics of the house. Ask a European or an American fashion editor to name a fresh, up-and-coming Japanese face and you get only silence. A Japanese fashion editor will tell you which Japanese designers are showing - Junko Shimada, Atsuro Tsuyama and Yoshiki Hishinuma - but as Kaori Tsukamoto, fashion director for Vogue Japan, admitted in Paris: "I'm not going to those shows...