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...finance chiefs talked about the U.S. housing market, rising energy prices, financial-sector reform, credit problems, inflation and exchange rates. But rather than resulting in specific measures, the meeting produced a kind of watch-and-wait strategy whereby the G-7 nations, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, would "continue to take appropriate actions, individually and collectively, in order to secure stability and growth in our economies," according to their statement...
...book is not without its flaws: originally serialized in an English-language newspaper in Japan, it occasionally repeats itself. Some may also dislike Keene's refusal to share more of his life outside academic or literary circles - particularly as he stresses literature's importance in conveying the communality of our deepest thoughts and emotions. But the history is fascinating, and the literary life Keene has doggedly carved out of it, remarkable...
...hugely entertaining - like watching some filmed version of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test from an adapted screenplay by Mario Puzo and directed by Yasujiro Ozu. And it's not just grotesque fantasy. Now You're One of Us, which was originally published in 1993, as divorce rates in Japan were soaring, is also high-wire social commentary. It's a parodic rebuke of traditional cultural attitudes that subsume individual welfare for the sake of a family unit, no matter how dysfunctional (or possibly, in Noriko's case, homicidal) they...
...tons of shredded paper fell over the Super Bowl-champion Giants during the Feb. 5 parade (left). Of more than 200 such parades in New York City, the largest--with 5,438 tons of ticker tape--was a two-day event to mark the U.S. victory over Japan...
...Correct understanding of past history is a precondition for the good relations of future.” Kim said that Harvard has a role to play in smoothing over the tensions that exist between Korea and its counterparts. “Ancient history must be respected by China and Japan,” Kim said. “We need someone mediating the three fighters.” One attendee of Kim’s lecture said that he was pleased to see Korean history gain more attention in western academia, since China and Japan have dominated research on East...