Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cannot be content just because 1998 did not end with a global financial meltdown and the U.S. and Europe achieved a good economic performance despite the debacle in the emerging markets and in Japan. If last year marked the end of U.S. and European complacency toward what was wrongly perceived at the beginning as just a regional crisis, 1999 is already shaping up as the year of living dangerously...
...East Asia. But the return to growth will be very gradual, barring any other unforeseen disruption. In this respect, the ability of China to manage the stability-growth-reform trilemma in an increasingly difficult environment is an ominous question mark. In the same vein, the issue of when Japan will start to become part of the solution to global economic woes instead of being part of the problem remains open...
Music and colors are richly interwoven in our psychology. In her latest release, Japan's Takako Minekawa draws us back to an infant's syn(th)aesthetic state where musical notes, colors, words and numbers find unity under a common sense of wonder. Armed with analog Casio synthesizer, Minekawa blends the controlled tones and rhythms of Kraftwerk (to whom she pays homage on the expansive "Kraftpark") with the delicate innocence of 60s French pop-to effects which at times echo likeminded Stereolab and 80s New Wave. Minekawa refines her music along minimalist lines, creating a childlike interplay between melody...
Sean S. Cheng '02, conference leadership chair,attended one of the Saturday workshops, asushi-making seminar co-sponsored byHarvard-Radcliffe Japan Society...
There are many challenges to face between now and then. Japan, which, as a banker and buyer, is crucial to any plans for a recovery in Asia, continues to struggle with economic reform. And in the U.S., growth is more dependent than ever on the stock market--which has been powered to new highs on the back of Greenspan's interest-rate cuts during the fall. The link between the Dow and the GDP means that a major correction in the stock market could send the trio's fondest hopes into the dustbin. "They have done a masterful...