Volume 48, Number 12 · July 19, 2001
The Japanese Berlusconi?
By Ian Buruma
Junichiro Koizumi, the new Japanese prime minister, has a most unusual hairdo—unusual, that is, for a conservative Japanese politician, not for a dashing country-and-western singer or an aging croupier. It is a long, voluminous affair wrapped around a narrow, hawkish head like an elegant gray bird's nest.
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