Word: yoshio
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...Today Australia exports some 10,000 tons, worth about $200 million - most of it frozen. Almost all is harvested, pulled from harbor pens onto waiting ships to be killed. Japanese buyers like Yoshio Koga of Nihon Marine grade the fish by checking flesh in the tail. Koga wants fish that are fat, red and oily, especially in the cherished toro, or belly meat. They can be on sale in Tokyo's giant Tsukiji fish market within three days...
...picture. We're not talking origami here. In the late 1990s, when MOMA was in the first stages of a major expansion, the late Kirk Varnedoe, then chief curator of painting and sculpture, made a point of consulting with architect Yoshio Taniguchi to make sure that the museum's new second floor would be strong enough to hold the tonnage of the typical late Serra work. He did that because by those years it was obvious that the time was coming soon for a very big Serra show. And that was because Serra, whose work had once seemed as severe...
...Yoshio Saito believes he has an answer: In 1976, Saito founded the Minami Uonuma Medical and Welfare Center an hour and a half north of Tokyo, and he's run it ever since. Saito's center includes the Yairo-en nursing home and a hospital, but his aim is to keep seniors out of both facilities for as long as possible by providing community care that allows the elderly to continue living in their own homes as long as possible. While they're still relatively healthy, nearby seniors can come to the hospital for day-care and checkups; when they...
...even more thrilling to watch the process in its chrysalis phase. In this respect, the masterclass between five Sydney Symphony woodwind players and 100 budding band members at an Osaka high school was the high point of the tour. The stage was a plastic-covered gymnasium floor, with headmaster Yoshio Shinohara's office standing in as green room. "I feel Australia is very close to my heart," says Shinohara, pointing out a Melbourne tea towel, kangaroo ashtray and koala-adorned sheepskin cushion?legacies of previous student exchanges...
...same time, Japanese officials are trying to bolster the country's exports through intervention in the currency markets. Says Bank of Japan Governor Satoshi Sumita: "We strongly hope the market will stabilize." Despite those politely phrased misgivings, the official Japanese presummit position, from Foreign Ministry Spokesman Yoshio Hatano, is a bland assertion that "the economic conditions in the summit countries are good. We should try to maintain and promote this situation...