Word: keio
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...future appears bright for schools like T.M.G. In 1990 Keio University of Tokyo plans to open Keio Gijuki New York Gakuin, a school for grades 9 through 12, on the campus of Manhattanville College, north of New York City. The setting will be more cosmopolitan than bucolic Sweetwater. But for students accustomed to the bustle of Tokyo, that should pose no problem...
Many of Prestowitz's observations are firsthand, since he has lived in or visited Japan many times over the past 24 years. He studied the Japanese language at Keio University in Tokyo and later helped manage a Swiss executive-search firm in Japan. Trading Places is especially full of fresh anecdotes and information gleaned from his industry contacts. He reports, for example, that IBM last year offered important technology to a leading competitor, Digital Equipment, rather than allow Digital to become more dependent on Japanese suppliers. The book also shows how President Reagan did not get too excited about trade...
This combination of cleverness, skill and shibusa, rather than originality, accounts for the excellence of Japanese design. Its continuity extends from the 17th century Katsura Imperial Villa, whose sparse, shoji-screened rooms influenced modern architecture, to the just completed Keio University library; from tatami mats to Sony's new Flamingo record players...
...Technology may not be the triumph we thought it would be. More than ever, we need the warm touch of the human hand." Maki studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., as well as at Harvard, which he frequently visits. The interior of his new Keio University library has a richness of architectural effects-the views, the progression of spaces, the staircase, furniture that doubles as sculpture-that are more palatial than academic but echo traditional Japanese motives. The most unabashedly Japanese of Maki's designs to date, however, are in his 18-bedroom guesthouse...