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People | CLOSE-UP Aug 5, 2007

Antiwar activist Steven L. Leeper

by Eric Prideaux

In a sense, it is the ultimate irony: The man appointed to oversee the memorial to victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 by an American B-29 aircraft is . . . an American. But antiwar activist Steven L. Leeper ...

People | CLOSE-UP Jul 1, 2007

Kotaro Sawaki: Writer on the road of life

by Tomoko Otake

Kotaro Sawaki is one of the most popular nonfiction writers in Japan. He made his name with "Shinya Tokkyu (Midnight Express)," a reportage of a yearlong overland trip through Asia and Europe he took when he was in his mid-20s. Those stories — whose ...