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...concentrating on "essentially conservative values and ideals," says Ken Arai, a research associate at Tokyo University, these religions give many Japanese a "renewed feeling of self-confidence and even changes that have reshaped the nation...
...Michio Arai Fujisawa, Japan
Last week's congressional hearings concentrated on what the U.S. could learn from foreign countries. Joji Arai, manager of the U.S. office of the Japan Productivity Center, cited 15 reasons for his country's productivity surge, including lax antitrust enforcement, large spending on R. and D., and joint management-worker programs to increase quality and eliminate production-line bottlenecks. Looking at the European experience, Eugene Merchant, director of research planning for Cincinnati Milacron Inc., emphasized the importance of the so-called trilateral relationship among Government, universities and companies. This is an idea that Europe adopted from...
...years the copper-hued tsurigane (hanging bell) of Tokyo's Nishi-arai Dai-shi Temple rang out over the city, its tone as rich as a mighty organ. When the temple survived the Tokyo earthquake of 1923, a superstition arose that the tsurigane was imperishable. Then, on an autumn day in 1943, a drab-colored Japanese army truck carted the half-ton tsurigane away to be melted down, with thousands of other Buddhist temple bells, into war scrap. The bell disappeared from sight, but its memory lingered...
...more than a month worshipers at Nishi-arai prepared a welcome. Special sutras (prayers) were composed, hundreds of streamers and leaflets were distributed throughout Tokyo. A 13-year-old girl wrote a song, The Bell That Came Home. Borne in colorful procession through Tokyo's streets, the tsurigane was greeted by a chanting crowd of 10,000. Chief Priest Hamano broke into unashamed sobs of happiness during his speech, and the U.S. Air Force band joined in the welcome by playing When the Saints Go Marching In. To mark the return of the tsurigane, the temple last week restored...