Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both Cajiri and Sameer Doshi '02 say they have tried out different student groups but without success. Cajiri says he didn't fit into the Harvard-Radcliffe Japan Society, the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students (HRSAS) and RAZA, while Doshi says that HRSAS and SAA were not right...
Ogata was appointed high commissioner in 1991 after serving as the dean of faculty of foreign studies at Tokyo's Sophia University since 1989. Her association with the United Nations when she was appointed a minister in 1976. She later served as delegate to the U.N. general assembly from Japan...
...bill is also about making financial-services firms in the U.S. big enough to compete with universal banks in Europe and Japan. Banks there have long been free from the kind of separation that has ruled in the U.S. since Senator Carter Glass and Representative Henry Steagall bonded in 1933 to draft the defining financial legislation of the 20th century. Born in tough times, Glass-Steagall expanded the powers of the Fed in controlling credit. It established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insured bank deposits. Most important, the act required banks to choose between being a simple lender...
Chances are that my generation will consume all manner of antiaging drugs and nostrums--antioxidants, growth hormone, vitamin D, garlic, red wine, melatonin, blueberries--and in the end we'll still live only a little longer than our parents. Today in Japan a clothing company is cashing in with "antistink" underwear for middle-aged men, who (according to the company) begin to emit odors. But by the time we die, or shortly thereafter, the expansion of youth and the postponement of old age may become one of the greatest enterprises of the 21st century. "I see it as inevitable," says...
...guess the most influential film has been Beijing Bastard, the first Chinese rock and roll film. Many young people saw it, in spite of the fact that it was never officially released in China, because of its release in Hong Kong and Japan. Of the seven movies that I have made up to this point, only my first film Mama was officially released in China. My two latest movies, Crazy English and Seventeen Years, are to be released very soon in China. But my other movies have never received any chance for release, essentially they were banned. It's truly...