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...Regardless, Nanking is bound to cause deeply uneasy feelings in Japan, where many members of the extreme right either deny that the massacre occurred, or claim that the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal greatly exaggerated the death toll when it concluded that Japanese troops killed about 260,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians in Nanjing between 1937 and 1938. (Some also argue that photos of the atrocities were faked, including the beheading shown at left). At a news conference on Jan. 24, filmmaker Satoru Mizushima-who also runs a Japanese satellite-TV station-lashed out at Nanking, calling it "a setup...
Lessac argues that "the basis of hope for the rest of the world" lies in a wider appreciation of the word on which post-apartheid South Africa was founded. Ubuntu is a term that expresses that idea that each man - rich, poor, friend, enemy - is irrevocably bound to the next. Its English translations are various: "togetherness," "humanity toward others," "I am because we are." Nelson Mandela explained ubuntu as follows: "A traveler through our country would stop at a village, and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food...
...unusual study published this month, researchers at Harvard Medical School have claimed that the psychiatric disorder known as dissociative amnesia, or repressed memory, is a “culture-bound syndrome,” and has no scientific basis. Their argument is based on the conclusion that no evidence for the existence of repressed memory exists in literature, fiction or non-fiction, before 1800—while other psychological disorders like epilepsy and schizophrenia have been documented since ancient times. Since the onset of their literary quest over a year ago, the researchers at Harvard-affiliated Mclean hospital have promised...
...other jobs out there was going to stop us from collectively submitting 14,900 eRecruiting applications (so far) for summer internships alone. Just as we all applied to Harvard in spite of all the other “good” schools out there, we’re bound to apply to McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs in spite of all the other “good” jobs out there...
...that skill is still in the service of a military that is, as the name says, a self-defense force - with most of the actual force provided by Japan's omnipresent American allies, treaty-bound to defend Japan. (The division of labor is obvious at Iwakuni - the U.S. keeps nearly half of the base to itself, shares most of the rest with Japan, which solely operates only 0.5% of the property.) Still, as the country's politics change to allow a more assertive foreign policy, Japan may not remain a stealth military power for long...