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...daughters (5 and 9) during the week. Like most Japanese executives, his day starts early and ends only after a long night of business entertaining. Nohmura earns $51,000 a year before taxes, which enables him to house his family in a four-room apartment in the outskirts of Kobe, a port city. Six days a week, he gets up at 7 and eats a Western-style breakfast prepared by his 32-year-old wife Sanae. Then he is out the door and into a Toyota Crown sedan, which he drives 40 minutes to his company's head office...
...small, inexpensive car. Tempura, the name of one of the Japanese dishes most popular among foreigners, is a mangled Latin word that refers to the Portuguese Catholic propensity to eat fish on Fridays as penance, as distinct from the Japanese practice of eating it every day for pleasure. Even Kobe beef, on which every Japanese dotes when he can afford to, is a Western import. The first cow butchered in Japan died for the table of an American consul in Shimoda in the 1850s, and a monument has since been raised to it by the butchers' association of Japan...
...Crimson's only goal came at 30:48 of the first half when a corner shot from senior Debbie Field hit a Yale defender and ricocheted into the Eli goal, just past the outstretched hands of goalie Kobe Dyer...
Lillias Katsubé Kobe, Japan...
...fluorocarbon mixture, Fluosol can dissolve and carry vast amounts of oxygen, thus doing the work of blood while giving the body a chance to replenish its own supply. The Fluosol is gradually excreted; after 65 days, half of it is gone. Developed in Japan at Kobe University and the Green Cross pharmaceutical company, it is now being tested there in human patients. If artificial blood is eventually approved for general use, it will be a boon not only to Jehovah's Witnesses, but in any case where blood is not easily obtainable, or when there is no time...