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...Colors weren't really fitting my character," she says (nor, one might add, the bleakness of her subject matter). Her art teachers initially dismissed her new style-"they said it's not painting; it's just manga," she recalls-but Machida persevered, eventually earning critical and popular acceptance. Today Yuji Yamashita, a professor of art history at Tokyo's Meiji Gakuin University, calls Machida perhaps the best of the neo-nihonga artists, and three of her works are already in the public collection of New York City's Museum of Modern Art. "She always has people ready to buy," says...
...last month. Moreover, earnings and corporate balance sheets around the world are as healthy as they have been in years. In Japan, corporate profits have climbed for four straight years (the longest sustained increase since the 1970s) and consumer spending is rising briskly on the back of declining unemployment. Yuji Shimanaka, chief economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting in Tokyo, says Japan is now in "a golden cycle." So, for now, is much of the world. "It comes down to very simple macroeconomics," says Subir Gokam, an economist at CRISIL, India's largest credit-rating firm. "The global economy...
...Officials of the temple at Bodh Gaya estimate that 15,000 foreigners come each year to see the holy tree. Peak season is from November to March, when the temperature drops, but there are pilgrims year round. "It's very peaceful here. It's easy to meditate," says Sato Yuji, 41, a Buddhist from Japan who has visited Bodh Gaya regularly for the past decade...
...exhibitions benefit tremendously from the museum's emphasis on selective presentation. Many rooms feature only a handful of pieces, encouraging visitors to take a closer look instead of a flyby glance at 30 works in 30 seconds. "Our approach is for art appreciation, not mass exhibitionism," explains curator Yuji Dainobu...
...says Katsuyuki Motohiro. "Next thing I knew, I was one of the hottest movie directors in the country." Motohiro is back behind the camera for the sequel, as are all of the original film's screenwriters and producers. Also present for encores is the cast, including actor and singer Yuji Oda in the starring role as Aoshima, the boyishly handsome detective. With a bigger budget, a handful of new faces (including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's son Kotaro playing a police-department surveillance expert) and the most extensive domestic movie-marketing campaign in history, Bayside Shakedown 2 has become...