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Life | CLOSE-UP Aug 2, 2009

Sokun Tsushimoto: Caring for body and soul

by Tomoko Otake

With his shaven head, straight back and deep, calming voice, Sokun Tsushimoto, a newly qualified physician who started practicing at a Tokyo clinic in April, clearly betrays evidence of his long and rich life experience. Until he set out on his eight-year study/training path toward ...

People | CLOSE-UP Jul 5, 2009

Motoko Inagawa: Japan's foreign-talent guru shares her worldly wisdoms

by Edan Corkill

In need of a couple of Portuguese missionaries? How about a boatload of Dutch traders — or a platoon of World War II U.S. grunts? Meet Motoko Inagawa. It's not that the sprightly 75-year-old's network of foreign acquaintances metaphysically extends to the long dead, but ...