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...million has just 20,000 licensed lawyers; on a per-capita basis, the U.S. has 25 times more. This week, however, 68 graduate-level law schools around Japan will open their doors to more than 5,000 would-be attorneys. "I don't want to be a salaryman," says Yuki Imai, 22, a freshman at the University of Tokyo's new law school. "A law degree will give me more freedom...
...selling shojo title, Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play, by Yu Watase, typifies the genre. It tells of Miaka Yuki, a lazy student with exam nightmares. A strange library book allows her to visit ancient China, where she meets a handsome but avaricious young warrior. Like most shojo, the tale features lush costumes and impossibly beautiful boys. What may surprise new readers are the author's interjections and frequent shifts into goofball humor--both classic manga tropes...
...currently top-selling shojo title, "Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play," by Yu Watase, typifies the style. Deftly combining action with melodrama, it tells of Miaka Yuki, a lazy student with exam nightmares. A strange library book allows her to visit ancient China where she meets a handsome but avaricious young warrior. Like most shojo the style of Fushigi Yugi includes lush costumes, impossibly beautiful boys and, yes, those big, saucer eyes and tiny, button noses. What new readers may be surprised at are the frequent shifts into goofball humor and the author asides -- both of which are manga tropes...
...Maki Murakami. It falls into a splinter genre of shojo called shonen-ai, translated literally as "boy-love." Though targeted at girls, shonen-ai features the romantic relationship between two males, in this case between high-schooler and aspiring musician Shuichi and a slightly older romance novelist named Eiri Yuki. Though it features a passionate kiss, "Gravitation" and other shonen-ai never get sexually explicit. The appeal for girls seems to be in looking at two pretty boys entering into an untouchable romance. Though quite popular in Japan, very little shonen-ai has gotten translated into English...
...going to be Sony," he says coyly. "But look at large markets where products cost more than they should, and it's almost a certainty we'll go into them." So get some popcorn, settle into a recliner and stay tuned for more announcements. --With reporting by Yuki Oda and Toko Sekiguichi/Tokyo