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NAGOYA--Misonoza Inc., renowned for its Kabuki and other theater productions, took around 18 months to heed a police warning to sever its ties with a sokaiya corporate racketeer.
Construction continues in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. The infrastructure projects include river embankments, bridges and roads. (Shigetaka Kodama using a drone) ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--This coastal city has been transformed, courtesy of a massive injection in government reconstruction spending following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that reduced it to ruins. But the 1.9 trillion yen ($17.9 billion) pumped in to rebuild the northeastern city facing the Pacific did little to reverse the course of decades of social change that has afflicted numerous rural communities around...