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That’s not all. Harvard Stadium hosted the first game between Japanese college football teams in 1991, with Keio University edging Waseda University by a 21-19 margin...
...ideal retirement age was about 65 or 70. In contrast, Americans, Germans and Swedes most often cited 60 to 65 as preferred ages to call it quits. "People think work has a value, that a job gives you important self-identification," says Atsushi Seike, an economist at Tokyo's Keio University, who studies the aging issue. Seike believes that the work ethic among the elderly stems from the fact that retirement is a relatively new phenomenon for Japan. Seniors watched their own parents and grandparents work until their bodies gave out. "Many retirees, especially the older ones, haven't accumulated...
...Kato, 51, persevered and is now an astronomy professor at Keio University, outside Tokyo. She was and continues to be an exception. In 2004, 9.5% of Japanese graduate students in engineering were women. Though the situation is steadily improving (the number of female engineering students has grown by 30% in the past decade), such ratios resemble the ones witnessed in the U.S. three decades...
...York Stock Exchange and the first to adopt a Western-style management structure with a board that comprised insider and independent directors alike. "Sony is a global enterprise, so it was expected that at some point a foreigner would become CEO," says Masaru Kaneko, a professor of economics at Keio University in Tokyo. Stringer himself says that approximately 70% of the company's stock is owned by foreigners, and points out that Ryoji Chubachi, appointed to be his president, lived in Alabama and speaks English with a Southern accent. (For that matter, Idei's love for French culture and knowledge...
...Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons--an avant-garde talent with a keen business sense. Her firm's awards include an Architectural Institute of Japan prize and the Arnold W. Brunner prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has been invited to teach at Tokyo's Keio University and has won a string of high-profile projects, including the design of a new home for New York City's New Museum of Contemporary...