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...shares in the name of a local nominee who has little real authority. But the amendment, which could be announced as early as this month, may require local partners to have voting power commensurate to their shares. Already, according to Yoichi Kato, head of the Bangkok office of the Japan External Trade Organization, several Japanese firms have told him that they may postpone investment in Thailand. "If you want to play in the global game, you can't just play by Thai rules," says Peter van Haren, president of the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce in Bangkok. "Other Asian nations...
Monet went on to collect 231 Japanese prints, which greatly influenced his work and that of other practitioners of Impressionism, the movement he helped create. Under the new Meiji Emperor, Japan in the 1870s was just opening to the outside world after centuries of isolation. Japanese handicrafts were flooding into European department stores and art galleries. Japonisme, a fascination with all things Japanese, was soon the rage among French intellectuals and artists, among them Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro and the young Monet. Perhaps for that reason Impressionism caught on early in Japan and remains ferociously popular there...
...Born in the city of Yonezawa in 1933, and obsessed with cameras since buying his first as a teenager, Hosoe is recognized today as one of Japan's greatest and most remarkable photographers. A major exhibition of his work, covering pieces from as far back as the 1960s (including images never previously exhibited), runs at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography until Jan. 28. For more details, see tokyo-photo-museum.or.jp
...last two days, the story has been much the same for individuals and businesses from Thailand to Japan following the magnitude 6.7 quake, which killed two people, damaged six key undersea cables off the coast of Taiwan and threw parts of the global telecommunications infrastructure into chaos. Asian businesses were left without email, Internet service and in some cases telephone connections to the outside world. Financial markets were interrupted. Even those who found they could reach some websites experienced download speeds reminiscent of antiquated dial-up service. Communications were returning to normal on Thursday, but network problems could persist...
...been damaged; household and business telephone service was largely unaffected. "We have no idea when these lines will be repaired," the spokesperson says. While the Tokyo offices of major financial firms Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch reported Thursday that their networks were functioning normally, some businesses in Japan complained of being unable to reach clients in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Rie Kuzumoto, who works at a publishing company, needed to make last-minute changes in an order placed with a Hong Kong supplier but could not get through by email or phone. "I feel very uneasy," Kuzumoto says...