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...half the original price. Any book not sold after three months is slashed to 100 yen (about 85?). Sellers of new books, along with publishers and wholesalers, are powerless to fight back. By law they can't cut their own prices to compete. "He completely got us," says Akiro Kikuchi, president of publishing company Chikuma Shobo. "You've got to hand it to him. He is one smart...
...search for a new anticholesterol drug began in Japan. Akiro Endo, a scientist with the pharmaceutical firm Sankyo, wondered whether soil molds that kill cholesterol-containing bacteria might have evolved the ability to block cholesterol synthesis. In 1976, after testing 10,000 compounds, Endo found one that inhibited a key enzyme in the cholesterol-manufacturing process. Researchers at Merck soon discovered similar compounds, including lovastatin, but the finds would have remained research oddities without the Nobel-prizewinning work of UTHSCD's Joseph Goldstein and Michael Brown...
Yojimbo. This is one of the funniest of Akiro Kursawa's Samurai films, telling the story of a Samurai (Toshiro Mifune) who offers his services to each of two factions warring in village. After some reversals, he of course ends up helping the side that deserves his skills. The film served as a model for the first block-buster spaghetti western, Fistful of Dollars, which brought Clint Eastwood to fame...
...also for those who filmed it. Three directors, one American (Richard Fleischer) and two Japanese, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, have managed to move crowds and planes, but not the viewer. They have shown events, but not contexts; national characters, but not national character. Originally, Master Director Akiro Kurosawa (Rashomori) was signed to oversee the Japanese sequences. He might have revealed the complex psychologies that led to the abyss and beyond. Without him, the film is a series of episodes, a day in the death. As for real men and causes, they are victims missing in action...