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...That's all this industry is," she says. At this stage of her career she approaches her job as she would a business venture. She attends weekly strategy sessions at Century Elements and continually suggests ways to increase her exposure. She studies the performances of competitors, such as newcomers Yumiko Cheng and Jade Kwan, to see where she needs to improve. Chen's image has gone through multiple incarnations since June and now features outrageous clothes and exotic hairstyles: "I couldn't go into the industry just being...
...North American and Japanese strike zones, he replied, "I would not want to address this as any problem. The umpires here are very good." Later Ichiro noted that of all the things he misses about Japan, No. 1 is his dog. (Ichiro and his wife, Japanese TV personality Yumiko Fukushima, live in a no-pets-allowed apartment complex in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue.) What's the critter's name? "I would not wish to say," said Ichiro, "without first asking its permission...
...discuss sex. Parents avoid the subject, though their offspring, like adolescents everywhere, are obsessed with it. "My parents aren't stiffs," allows Ayumi Suzuki, 17, from Togane, near Tokyo, "but it's just not something to talk about with them. I just talk about it with friends." Admits Yumiko Kaga, the mother of two adolescent daughters: "We never discuss sex at home. I feel we should, but . . . I do remember giving my children a book on where babies come from...
Perhaps the one trait that makes both men and women distinctively Japanese is their extreme deference to the harmony of the group. Says Author and Feminist Yumiko Yansson, explaining why Japanese women remain mostly kakure feministo (closet feminists), despite their increasing discontent: " 'Resignation is the first lesson of life,' the saying goes. In Japan, rebellion means being an outsider...
...relaxation, involves long evenings of drinking with other men, and he is far more likely to share his conversation with bar hostesses than with his own wife. Yumiko Kitazawa, a teacher in her early 60s, is perfectly content: "I wouldn't want my husband around all the time. I wouldn't want to be beta-beta [stickily clinging all over each other]." But the younger Japanese who have had the great adventure of getting to know each other in school, want to be able to share their ideal heaven, a "sweet home." This desire partly explains the diminishing...
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