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People | CLOSE-UP Jun 5, 2011

Amon Miyamoto: Globe-trotting dramatist seeks new horizons

by Nobuko Tanaka

Fifty-three years ago, Amon Miyamoto was born into a world in which he grew up listening to spirited exchanges between leading lights from the stage and showbiz in his father's coffee shop across from the modern-leaning Shinbashi Enbujo outpost of the venerable Kabuki-za theater ...

People | CLOSE-UP May 1, 2011

Atsuko Muraki: Fighter for justice

by Tomoko Otake

Atsuko Muraki was thrown into the public spotlight in 2009, when she was head of the Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. Back then, Japan's major news media suddenly started casting her as a lead perpetrator in a ...