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<text id=89TT1886>
<title>
July 17, 1989: Godzilla Was Here
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
July 17, 1989 Death By Gun
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
PEOPLE, Page 79
Godzilla Was Here
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<p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
</p>
<p> In Japan a cantaloupe costs $40," says comedian Tamayo
Otsuki. "It's 29 cents a pound here. I eat one every day, and
so far, I've saved $20,000." A regular performer on the U.S.
comedy-club circuit, Osaka-born Otsuki, 30, gets laughs by
noting clashes in East-West culture and commerce. How do comics
differ in Japan? "They have to be cute," she says, "not
controversial." The diminutive Otsuki, who has a Godzilla-size
appetite for fame, writes material that is decidedly prickly,
but the former sushi waitress nonetheless thinks her humor
"helps Americans and Japanese understand more about each other
-- and themselves."
</p>
</body></article>
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