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Examples
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Pei-yu in Taiwan sent me this postcard, purchased during a trip to Japan, of a 2001 work by artist Chiho Aoshima, in which a girl goes through various unlikely steps toward rebirth as a snake woman.
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Hatoyama knows that in the last election, Aoshima defeated a candidate backed by the four top political parties, showing that many voters are tired of the establishment.
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Just as the American bull market has propelled the career of New York's volatile mayor, Rudy Giuliani, Japan's slump made it all but impossible for Aoshima to go on.
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He's going to cut spending, just as Aoshima tried to do.
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Aoshima tried to change the city's course, but its foundations were slipping beneath him.
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When Aoshima took office four years ago, be was best known as "Pesky Grandma," a 1970s television character who took grandkids to porno flicks.
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Signs of success Aoshima may be Murakami's most successful protégé.
The Students of J-Pop Artist Takashi Murakami Shine on Their Own 2008
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At one point last year, Aoshima threatened to declare Tokyo bankrupt, a move that would have embarrassed the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and forced a central government bailout.
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Signs of success Aoshima may be Murakami's most successful protégé.
The Students of J-Pop Artist Takashi Murakami Shine on Their Own By Sonia Zjawinski 2008
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It is symbolic of how times are changing for Tokyo that Hatoyama, the consummate insider, now talks very much like Aoshima, the departing outsider.
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