Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a feeling that they've had a more formal reception elsewhere," she said...
Experts on Japanese business methods have compiled numerous guidelines for foreign negotiators. One of the first is that women should not be part of any formal talks. "Women are simply not accepted as business equals in Japan," notes a negotiator for a major U.S. electronics firm. Japanese women are all but barred from the management of big companies, and the important after-hours business socializing in Japan is exclusively stag. Another admonition is not to send someone under 35 to conduct negotiations. Says an American official with a high-tech firm: "You are insulting the Japanese by sending a young...
...1950s and became the first Japanese architect to win a wide institutional clientele by combining a Corbusian idiom with traditional Japanese quotations, done in reinforced concrete. Since then a generation of architects-some of them Tange's former students at Tokyo University-has proved less interested in formal revivalism than in a more conceptual relationship to their heritage. Outstanding among these (but still, one among several) is Arata Isozaki, 52, whose as yet unbuilt design for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles may turn out to be the most remarkable building conceived by a Japanese architect...
...Formal religious observance in Japan revolves around the family's rites of passage (births, marriages, funerals and death anniversaries) and, for the community, a sequence of colorful, joyful festivals. So popular is Hatsumode, the New Year's visit to local sacred places, that specially installed traffic lights guide millions of worshipers along the gravel paths of the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo...
...candidates was approved by a departmental vote, said Alonso, and then professors individually sent letters to Rosovsky appraising the possible appointments. Alonso added that, putting together these letters, "outside opinion," and the advice of the adhoc committee. Bok decided what array of offers to send out, without a formal department vote--usually required in such cases...