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Parent’s appreciation for fashion also began early, but it wasn’t before he arrived at Harvard and spent a summer abroad in Korea and Japan that his interest became something tangible...
...think that I’ve always enjoyed [fashion] but I didn’t get really into before I got more access to it,” Parent said. “I went to Korea and Japan and I got to see some great designers there and I went to New York a lot freshman year. Going to big cities fostered an innate passion for fashion...
With the arrest of his closest associates, Fujimori fled to Japan, his ancestral homeland, in November 2000 and was granted citizenship there. Peru was unable to extradite him from Japan. But then Fujimori did the unexpected and secretly flew to Chile, Peru's southern neighbor, in October 2005. The idea was to return to Peru from Chile to possibly run in the 2006 elections, but those plans were foiled by Chilean police, who promptly arrested him. Fujimori did come home, but under guard. The Chilean Supreme Court approved his extradition on seven counts in September...
...undergraduate advocates have failed to provide the steady pressure needed for change. “I don’t think that the student push has been that sustained or has offered a clear vision of why this is important,” said Gordon, who specializes in modern Japan. Without an existing program in Asian American studies, student advocates are trapped in a “vicious cycle,” said professor Wilt L. Idema, head tutor of the East Asian languages and literatures department. “If the courses are not there, students cannot take them...
...Even with such policies in place, trade hawks in the U.S., Europe and Japan wonder why they should throw themselves open to investment arms controlled by governments that limit foreign access to their own markets. Beijing, they point out, still has strict limits and an opaque review process for foreign companies that seek to buy significant stakes in many Chinese companies. "I'm sorry, they keep us out of their countries when they see fit, so we're just supposed to roll over and let them buy whatever they want here?" says the U.S. Congressional staffer. "Why would...