Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno
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A Tiny Gas Meter? The More Mundane the Better for Japan’s Capsule Toys.
Isolated in their plastic spheres, pint-size reproductions of everyday items feel like a metaphor for Covid-era life.
Takao Saito, 84, Dies; Created a Japanese Comic Book Superstar
Over a half-century and in more than 200 collected volumes, his manga tales of Golgo 13, a globe-trotting assassin, steered Japanese comics toward adults.