Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forum brought together students from a number of Asian American organizations, including the Japan Society, the Harvard Philippine Forum (HPF), the Harvard Vietnamese Association and the Chinese Student Association (CSA), among others. Twenty-five students attended from the nine groups who were invited...
...Former Japan Society Co-president, Kentaro Fujita '00 said, "AAA has always tried to be a separate organization focusing on the political. I know the Japan Society focuses more on the cultural...
When the global slowdown hit Russia, Korea and Japan, these countries responded in part by boosting their exports of steel to the U.S. The Clinton Administration initially played along with the demands of the steel industry and its unions. In his State of the Union address, Clinton warned of great harm to the steel industry from abroad and threatened tariffs against Japan. But how much harm has really occurred? The U.S. imported almost a third of its steel in 1998, up from about 25 percent the year before--a change, but hardly one which spells the death of the domestic...
...wages, which lead to higher prices and, ultimately, higher interest rates. For the umpteenth time, bond traders say we have reached the point at which all that nastiness commences. But they're really just reading tea leaves, projecting what is famously difficult to project. For inflation to take off, Japan and the rest of Asia will have to wake from a deep sleep before Europe or the U.S. starts to nod off. Interest rates in Japan, by the way, dropped to near zero last week. Inflation? The government is prodding people to buy something, anything, to keep prices from sinking...
...College of Music, began his performance with a 10-minute improvisation to a Chick Corea composition honoring the be-bop style of 1950s pianist Bud Powell. Burton was accompanied by a Yamaha piano recording of Makuto Ozone, a Berklee graduate and frequent collaborator of Burton's now living in Japan...