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...American housewife with a command of Japanese would be perfectly at home listening to Kimi No Na Wa (What's Your Name?). A rich, ripe, full-bodied soap opera, Kimi has been running on Japanese radio for almost two years, has won more than 18 million devoted listeners, and is about to have three monuments erected to its memory at localities prominently mentioned in the script...
...start off, the candidates must master a mock set of rules. In Arco's example of an artificial-language, plurals end in s, numerals must follow nouns and kirn, kima, kime, kimi mean who, whose, to whom, and whom. Candidates must then use the rules to count (bal is one, bals is ten, balsebal is eleven, etc.) and to conjugate verbs (binob, I am; binol, you are; binom, he is; binof, she is; binos, it is; binobs, we are; binols you are; binoms, they...
...power squeeze on Iran grew tighter by the day. Sharp Russian pressure was bearing down from the north, and now a mild U.S. push was coming up from the south. Between them lay the helpless, hapless Government of Premier Ebrahim Ha-kimi...
...Mountain a poor family within a few rice grains of starvation sells the oldest 'daughter, Kimi, to a procurer when she is not yet 16. She is apprenticed to a house in the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo, where the streets are well kept and the architecture more uniform than in most other quarters. When her year's apprenticeship is up and she is ready for work, a rich businessman named Yamano takes a liking to her, reserves her for himself. Naive, lonely, she is soon fond...
...that he may be implicated with them, is reassured by his old friend Major Honjo, a kind-hearted Christian convert who carries on a one - man rescue mission among the Yoshiwara women. At one of Major Honjo's Sunday Bible readings Shigeo meets and falls in love with Kimi. the latest addition to the Major's household. Old Yamano, deprived of his mistress, discovers her whereabouts from his unsuspecting son. From this point on the depth of feeling increases between Yamano, who still desires Kimi, and his son, who can only resent without understanding his father...