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...Hannah Beech a year ago called Japan's "discovery of Japan." Perhaps tellingly, the number of Japanese students at U.S. universities has declined in the last decade; there are now fewer Japanese students in the U.S. than Chinese or Indian ones. How Japanese is Japan? Well, consider this datum: Junichiro Koizumi, who led Japan from 2001 to 2006, and who in terms of economic-policy terms was the most "American" Prime Minister Japan has ever had, routinely paid his respects at the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, which memorializes those who died in war - including, inconveniently, a number of convicted...
...roadkill on the Hume Highway. Nearly 90% of us live on the coast, not in the outback, wherever that elusive place may be defined as being. (The "bush" is outside the suburbs, the "outback" beyond the bush, and the "black stump" is the term for a very remote datum point, as in, "He lives way out there beyond the black stump.") Our country towns are in decline. Their inhabitants keep moving to the coast, away from the center. Because Australia has no fertile center--no Great Plains, no Mississippi--there is no place for them in that immense, empty outback...
...technology behind SEVIS has been riddled with problem since its establishment. The system does not allow schools to edit student information once it is submitted, requiring them to resubmit entire records to update a single datum. As a result, obsolete records have bogged down the system, users...
...Peru by fax. Now the 62-year-old was settling into the homeland of his parents with no plans to leave--but possibly facing corruption charges in Peru. He appears to qualify for citizenship because his parents registered his birth at the Japanese consulate in Lima, and that datum was transferred, somehow, into the family registry in their home village in Japan. Immigration authorities were vague about all this, while diplomats prayed the new Peruvian government would not demand that Japan send Fujimori back to face charges. They don't want a Pinochet in their midst...
...roadkill on the Hume Highway. Nearly 90% of us live on the coast, not in the outback, wherever that elusive place may be defined as being. (The "bush" is outside the suburbs, the "outback" beyond the bush, and the "black stump" is the word for a very remote datum point, as in, "He lives way out there beyond the black stump.") Our country towns are in decline. Their inhabitants keep moving to the coast, away from the center. Because Australia has no fertile center - no Great Plains, no Mississippi - there is no place for them in that immense, empty outback...