Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about. The barons of fossil fuel warned that curbs on emissions of greenhouse gases would destroy jobs without necessarily having a positive effect on our climate. But now, as officials from 180 nations meet in Buenos Aires this week to firm up the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty forged in Japan last year to combat climate change, the forces of opposition have suffered some major defections...
Last year, in a whirlwind eleven-day tour, President Neil L. Rudenstine stopped at many of the major cities of East Asia, including Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei. In June, he returned to China and Japan and made his first visit to Korea...
...They tell you to go over to Japan for a month with basically personal items, and that's it," she says. "It's unbelievable how much stuff you get from the sponsors...
...Manners: the ubiquitous "no elbows on the table," the less common, unwieldy knife switch-over between cutting and chewing and the taboo against soup-slurping. But etiquette in American dining is about propriety and little more. According to the owner and chef of Cafe Japonaise, things are different in Japan. Sushi neophytes need more than a willingness to embrace the strangeness of raw fish. Eating sushi is a matter of taste and technique...
...larger pool of potential donors. Israeli and Italian doctors say they have vastly improved the odds of a successful transplant between family members whose tissue types don't match perfectly. It's done by transplanting large numbers of stem cells--the bone-marrow cells that make blood. In Japan, doctors report that sophisticated DNA analysis is enabling them to better match donors and recipients who are not related...