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PERSONALITY PROFILE

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
May 5, 2001
Yoshihiro Takishita
Although Yoshihiro Takishita spent 18 months looking for land on which to place a house, he had his reward. The site he found is superlative, on a Kamakura hilltop surrounded by countryside and overlooking an expanse of sea. The unusual part is that he had already bought the house, "one with big columns...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Apr 28, 2001
Masumi Muramatsu
"Aka M.M.," laughed Masumi Muramatsu. In no time at all he introduces a lighthearted note into conversation.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Apr 21, 2001
Jane Best Cooke
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Apr 14, 2001
Sylvie Gramegna
"Small and beautiful" is the description people use when they speak of Luxembourg. This little country, tucked between Belgium, Germany and France, has for centuries been a meeting place of Germanic and Latin cultures. It is known for being open to the movement of people and the different influences...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Apr 7, 2001
Rebeka Majid
At the beginning of this year, the Asian Ladies Friendship Society was formally renamed the Asia-Pacific Ladies Friendship Society. "This name better reflects the society's present composition," said Mrs. Rebeka Majid, wife of the ambassador of Bangladesh.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 31, 2001
Regina Doi
Twenty-five years ago, Regina Doi opened a combined nursery school, preschool and kindergarten at Aoba, Tokyo. "There were 16 children, and I was not quite sure whether it would work," she said. "Within a very short period of time, we had 80 children. When we had about 150, I was sure."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 25, 2001
Shisen Fukasawa
"Examples of the earliest beginnings of expressive writing go back as far as Egyptian hieroglyphic writings found on animal bones, Hindustan writings found in India, Sumerian inscriptions and Chinese characters found on tortoise shell. Of these, Chinese characters alone remain today in their original...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 18, 2001
Tsuyoshi Akiyama
According to Dr. Tsuyoshi Akiyama, until rather recently psychiatry as a branch of medicine did not receive in Japan the recognition it merits. He, however, made psychiatry his specialty. His reasons at the time were very specific.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 11, 2001
Ignatius Cronin
At the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Ignatius Cronin holds the title of director of international public relations. His brief covers "everything from checking the level of English used everywhere inside the hotel and in its promotional materials and in-house magazine, to news releases and consultation on...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Mar 4, 2001
Lydia Gomersall
Each year for 11 years now, Refugees International-Japan has been sponsoring its Art of Dining Exhibition. In this display, participants present highly individual, beautiful and imaginative tabletop settings for viewers' admiration and inspiration. Proceeds from the event go to RIJ's programs for the...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 25, 2001
Tim and Lee Pierce
Ever since they first came to Tokyo nearly 30 years ago, Tim and Lee Pierce have been committed, reliable, community people. Separately and as a duo, they have allied themselves to associations that appeal to them. They came as parents, and are now grandparents, whose conversations often bring in mention...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 18, 2001
Helmut Morsbach
Something Helmut Morsbach has been dreaming of for many years is about to become reality.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 11, 2001
Christopher Hughes
Bath in southwestern England, his birthplace and home for his first 18 years, played its part in the makeup of Christopher Hughes. Several generations of his family have lived in that beautiful town of squares, crescents and terraces. Set in a bend of the River Avon and famed since Roman times, Bath...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 4, 2001
Shizuo Mochizuki
Shizuoka, the warm, sunny prefecture known for its peaceful hillsides where tea bushes grow, has always been home to Shizuo Mochizuki. His father kept a shop in Shizuoka where he sold Japanese cakes. Mochizuki says that neither tea bushes nor sweet cakes especially influenced him in choosing to make...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jan 28, 2001
American Kenneth Jones
"Walk in, you'll be in Kyoto," proclaims the brochure of Kyoto-Kan, Akasaka.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jan 21, 2001
Belenda Ryan
Belenda Ryan calls her career so far her "rambling life."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jan 14, 2001
Sandra Gamo
Sandra Gamo is just old enough to be able to say that she was "a rare species" in the late 1950s, when she was a bilingual Pan American Airways flight hostess. In those days few young women in this part of the world had achieved her level of two languages, poise and presence. Remarkably, and very early...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jan 7, 2001
Yoshitami Arai
As a precocious 15-year-old in 1946, Yoshitami Arai looked around at a Japan that was, he said, "totally destroyed." Then at school in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, he was already beginning to understand the need of the nation to produce businessmen who would rebuild the economy. From that time on, he...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Dec 31, 2000
Minoru Akimoto
"For a college kid in a provincial town in the early 50s, there were not many options for learning English. My teachers were Hollywood movies. I memorized a script and then sat in a movie theater all day, watching and listening to the same movie time and again."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Dec 24, 2000
Jazzchor Freiburg
Germany's award-winning, unconventional 25-member Jazzchor Freiburg recently made its second tour of Japan. The choir is characterized by unpredictability, as its founder-conductor believes it is boring for audiences to know what is coming next. He throws into a typical concert as much variety as he...
Why half of Japan's cities are at risk of disappearing in 100 years
A couple looks out onto the Fukuoka nightscape. Due to its distance from Tokyo and its close proximity to South Korea and China, professor Tomoya Mori believes that Fukuoka is one of the few metropolitan regions of Japan that will see some form of growth in the decades to come.
Fuchu Prison adapting to foreign prisoners
From the outside, the light-brown complex that is Fuchu Prison in western Tokyo could easily be mistaken for a city hall.
America wasn’t made for walking, and it’s killing them
A 2010 study found that U.S. adults averaged 5,117 steps daily and that this was lower than the averages found in similar studies in Switzerland, western Australia and Japan.
Japan concerned over U.S. officials' remarks on atomic bombings
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks to reporters during a news conference in Washington on Thursday.
Rare sequel to 'My Neighbor Totoro' to play at Cannes
A screening of "Mei and the Baby Cat Bus," which is being billed as a "mini-sequel" to the Studio Ghibli classic "My Neighbor Totoro," is set to take place at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.
Fuchu Prison adapting to foreign prisoners
From the outside, the light-brown complex that is Fuchu Prison in western Tokyo could easily be mistaken for a city hall.
The politicians moving Japan forward on climate
While not the most outspoken politician on the issue, digital minister Taro Kono has a track record of being serious in his commitment to addressing the climate crisis.
Morning-after pill buyers back prescription-free sales following trial
Some 2,181 morning-after pills were sold at 145 pharmacies across the nation, with Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture recording over 200 sales each.
Want to be a voice actor? Stay 'true to the character'
SungWon Cho is a veteran with more than 10 years of experience portraying characters in anime, cartoons and video games.
Local theater in Japan is more than a hobby — it’s a community
Japan Times contributor Laura Pollacco (front right) was offered the role of one of her all-time favorite heroines, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet, in the Tokyo International Players’ production of “Pride and Prejudice.”

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