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...privacy of their home." To give guests that home away from home feeling, Westin is teaming up with Reebok to offer fitness-friendly guest rooms. Within the next few months, the chain plans to kit out two guest rooms at each of its 121 hotels worldwide. Reebok has helped design both the workout regimen and an in-room yoga video. One room will feature a stationary bike, another a treadmill, and both will offer fitness equipment, including exercise mats and balls-all for around $20 more than the standard rate. Westin will offer yoga and Pilates?inspired training DVDs...
...quickly be disabused of the notion that it is impossible for Japanese manufacturers to compete against China's low labor costs. Fully one-third of the region's economy is tied to manufacturing, among the highest rates in the nation. China and Korea still cannot match many of the design and process-improvement techniques that are invented and perfected here, neither can they produce the high-end, R&D-heavy, design-intensive products like capital equipment, aerospace equipment and industrial ceramics that are Nagoya specialties. Much of the region's health, identity and confidence comes from Toyota City (about...
...house architect of Japan's post-war re-entry onto the world stage-the man who, more than any other, defined the nation's architectural identity in the last half of the 20th century. The University of Tokyo-trained Tange rocketed to fame with his 1949 design for the Peace Memorial Park at Hiroshima's ground zero, the concrete museum, arched cenotaph and mammoth public square of which managed to be arresting without quite being beautiful, distinctive without quite being iconic. His later commissions embodied Japan's re-emergence as an increasingly confident economic power: the sweeping National Gymnasium Complex...
...privacy of their home." To give guests that home away from home feeling, Westin is teaming up with Reebok to offer fitness-friendly guest rooms. Within the next few months, the chain plans to kit out two guest rooms at each of its 121 hotels worldwide. Reebok has helped design both the workout regimen and an in-room yoga video. One room will feature a stationary bike, another a treadmill, and both will offer fitness equipment, including exercise mats and balls - all for around $20 more than the standard rate. Westin will offer yoga and Pilates?inspired training DVDs...
DIED. KENZO TANGE, 91, Japan's most influential postwar architect, who led the rebuilding of Hiroshima with his peace-park design in 1949; in Tokyo. A winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, he helped re-elevate his country to the world stage with his twin comma-shaped sports arenas for Tokyo's 1964 Olympics...