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...JUDO When she was a teenage schoolgirl with an 84-match unbeaten streak, judo master Ryoko Tani was known as Ryoko Tamura; she changed her name last December when she married Japanese pro baseball player and fellow Olympian Yoshimoto Tani in a $3 million Paris wedding that was televised across Japan. Tani's popularity in her home country is as outsized as she is pint-sized, but that only makes the gold-medal pressure on the 1.46-m judoka all the more intense. She was upset in the 1992 and 1996 Games, having to settle for silver on each occasion...
...publisher, Komichi Shobo Co., saying the book awakened him to reading. That connection led to a job at the small company. At 28, Takei went independent, publishing in 1989 the best-selling compilation Listen to My Story: The Blue Hearts, My Love, the authors of which included Banana Yoshimoto. Takei had yet to even rent office space...
What may strike us as most remarkable about contemporary authors Banana Yoshimoto and Haruki Murakami is the relative familiarity of the world they write about - the fact that they don't seem tortured by the question of Japan's position relative to the rest of the world. When the heroine of Yoshimoto's Kitchen mixes Japanese and French dishes in her menus, she's not making a point about cultural miscegenation. The deadpan Yoshimoto seems to be merely reporting how people eat in Tokyo...
...hostages, the task before them was perhaps best expressed by Etsuko Taguchi, 59, who attended the ill-fated reception with her husband Yoshimoto, 57. Etsuko was released on Wednesday night, but Yoshimoto remained. On Thursday she attempted to hand a packet of stomach tablets to the Red Cross workers who were acting as go-betweens, with a note addressed to her husband in Roman alphabet. Added to it was the single Japanese word, ganbatte. It means "hang in there...
...Americans, some of the treatments for these maladies may seem like anti-therapies or even brainwashing. Naikan (introspection) is a one-week program of directed meditation. It is a 30-year-old folk treatment invented by Ishin Yoshimoto, a layman with a background in Buddhism. A "guide" first discusses the devotion of the patient's mother. Then the process is repeated with the other important contributors to his life. The guide steers the patient away from abstract comments and complaints and focuses on his ingratitude toward the sacrifices of other persons. Many patients break down crying, and some want...
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