Word: butter
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...world's second largest economy is now crying over spilled milk - and its delicious by-product, butter. Japan, insulated from rice shortages that plague other parts of Asia, is experiencing an unprecedented shortage of the household staple - and discovering that it is not as immune from the growing global food crisis as it wants...
...Butter has a strange status in Japan. Historically, butter is a reminder of Japan's first contacts with the West - the islanders complained that the foreigners were bata-kusai , that is, "butter-stinkers." But since the 1960s, local butter making and consumption has been seen as a symbol of Japanese self-sufficiency in and mastery of an originally Western product. The shortage is a blow to that independent self-image...
...butter shortage results from a chain of events. When the country suffered an overproduction of milk in 2006, the government ordered about 1,000 tons of raw milk poured down the drain and dairy cows slaughtered to prop up prices and defend local milk farmers. Dairy prices were then managed to retain their advantage to imported milk and butter, whose prices were inflated by tariffs. (To protect domestic butter, the tax on imported butter went up twice last year. There is a nearly 30% tariff on butter imports...
...than any other production, is an honor for Jewett, but he’s had great experiences at just about every Harvard theater venue. He points to set designing and light ‘opping’ at the Currier fishbowl for a play called “Peanut Butter and Juliet,” written by Michael Mitnick ’06, as one of his best experiences. But he doesn’t really have any single favorite production or memory from all the time he’s spent doing theater work. “When...
...describe that day so that in a few years, of course if I'm not deported, I'll be able to remember it. We got up at 4 o'clock in the morning. We had a great breakfast (considering it was wartime): eggs, salad, real butter, coffee with milk. When we were ... ready, it was already half past 5, and then we left. There were thousands of people on the road. Every once in a while we had to stop, in order to let the crowd in front of us proceed...