Word: ushiyama
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...says that 71% of Japanese men between 60 and 64 are still working, compared with just 17% of Frenchmen in the same age group. Many of those who aren't drawing a paycheck remain active as volunteers for charitable causes. "You have to keep taking on challenges," says May Ushiyama, who at 94 still runs the Hollywood Beauty Salon in Tokyo, which she helped start three-quarters of a century ago. "If you lose that, it's the end of you as a human being...
...elderly represent Japan's greatest generation, responsible for lifting the country from the postwar ashes and building the world's second biggest economy?and they're not done yet, as May Ushiyama shows. The bright-eyed, thoroughly perfumed 94-year-old?who spent several years after the war working in Hollywood, and has the black and white photos with Grace Kelly and Debbie Reynolds to prove it?grew her beauty salon from a small family company to an upscale operation that now occupies several floors in Tokyo's tony Roppongi Hills. She has no intention of retiring. "If you live...