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...high educational achievement is virtually the only guarantee of a successful career. More than 65% of high school students stick with college entrance courses. Says one: "When you go into a technical course, it's very bad. Everyone knows you couldn't make it." Notes Shogo Ichikawa of the National Institute for Educational Research: "We keep long-term relationships, so we must select group members very carefully. The Japanese industrial and occupational structure requires the Japanese education and selection systems...
Researchers have tested the small, potted plant for over a decade at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York under the guidance of Japanese genetic scientist Sadeo Ichikawa, Ramie Arian, a spokesman for the Creative Gifts Corporation said. "If nuclear radiation is in the air, the plant changes colors from its natural blue to pink. This discovery is a potential lifesaver," Arian added...
Visions of Eight. Eight directors from around the world look at the Munich Olympics. Kon Ichikawa, Arthur Penn, Milos Forman, Claude Lelouch, Mai Zetterling, Juri Ozerov, Michael Pfleghar, and John Schlesinger. At Cinema 733, Sunday and Monday...
...original material for Siddhartha--the book itself--was no gem, but the basic setting and action has potential. Louis Malle (Phantom India) and Jean Renoir (The River), along with Satyajit Ray and his Apu trilogy, have shown that India's culture is fascinating on film. And Kon Ichikawa made a brilliant Japanese film called The Burmese Harp about a soldier burying the unknown dead after the World War II defeat, giving the story of a religious ascetic roaming the countryside incredible resonance and conviction...
...slow-motion freaks do not fare any better. Japan's Kon Ichikawa, who all by himself made a better Olympics film about the 1964 Tokyo Games, uses slow motion to record the 100-meter dash. Although it is fascinating to see some of the world's fastest humans running in place for a few minutes, it is finally frustrating not to see the essence of their thing, which is a blur. Arthur Penn has some extremely pretty pictures of pole vaulters slowly soaring, but when he cuts a lot of vaults together to form a sort of aerial...