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...Until the twentieth century, there wasn’t even a word for the concept. From small Japanese towns to Tokyo highrises, everyone knows their neighbors’ business, because the walls are made of a very thin—but equally delicious—rice paper.Like Japan, Harvard is not known for its privacy. This is, after all, a school in which the three tasks to complete before graduation all involve some form of public nudity and exposed genitalia. The halls of Annenberg echo with last night’s tale of dormcest and the walls of Canaday...
...Asian Studies in order to give “cohesion and stimulus” to graduate training and research associated with East Asia. The Crimson ran a short article covering the Center’s formation, noting that its plans called for “more intensive study of Japan, Korea, and other potential trouble areas...
...downtown Boston, her mother back in Guatemala sent invitations for her daughter to approve. The two were preparing for Boehms’ upcoming wedding in Guatemala, an affair in which the 12 bridesmaids will hail from all over the world—Alabama, Cuba and Puerto Rico, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, and Peru. Boehm, 24, will wed Christian Móller, 32, on Sept. 6, two years after they met through mutual friends. Soon after meeting, they discovered that their German immigrant grandmothers knew each other in their home country of Guatemala. While Boehm studied government and lived...
...musicians - including violinist Iwao Furusawa, tenor Masafumi Akikawa and wispy-voiced female vocalist Aoi Teshima - will perform a series of works with the intention of sending the audience to sleep. The concert, to be held at the Tokyo International Forum, is a live rendition of music selected for a Japan Airlines in-flight audio relaxation channel. The pieces, which include Schubert's Ave Maria and a Mozart Divertimento, were tested by a physician specializing in sleeping disorders and compiled into Good Sleep CD: Dreams - a hugely popular album in sleep-deprived, stressed-out Japan...
...throwing a ball or swinging a club or racquet. Wii bumped up Nintendo's sales 73%, to $16 billion, last year. It is outselling rivals 3 to 1, and Fit is driving Wii: more than 2 million Fit units have been sold since the game's December launch in Japan, and its U.S. debut is expected to drive Nintendo to another bust-out year...