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...Lower-tier schools, however, may not be able to compete because of a lack of resources, and many will likely end up closed or consolidated. But the ruthless competition will ultimately be good for students, says Kiyoaki Murakami, a science and technology research director at Tokyo-based think tank Mitsubishi Research Institute. "I believe the quality of Japanese education will improve, especially if the current sense of urgency drives Japanese schools to start competing with M.I.T. and Harvard." As for Hagi, new investors are considering relaunching it as a training school for social services, including elderly care?one job sector...
...Honda's mind, the being that he has encountered in Kiyoaki and the rest is an angel of the Six Worlds of Desire. To save Toru from the angel's recurring fate he must steal its wings, for "the world does not approve of flying...
...lives past the destined age of twenty, Honda realizes that he must be a counterfeit. Old now, and infirm, he travels to the abbey where his friend's lover Satoko is now the abbess. She receives him warmly, but denies any knowledge of him or his friend Kiyoaki...
Honda is crushed. The abbess suggests to him that perhaps his memory has faded somewhat, that Kiyoaki never indeed existed. "If there was no Kiyoaki, then there was no Isao," he says. "There was no Ying Chan, and who knows, perhaps there has been...
With Honda's increasing realization that Toru is not the real reincarnation of Kiyoaki comes acceptance of the arbitrary nature of reality. "It was an accident, an utterly senseless accident, that Kiyoaki and Isao and Ying Chan had all appeared beside Honda... Eternity does not come into being because I think I exist," the old man reflects. Struck by the final challenge of Satoko's denial of Kiyoaki's existence, Honda sits in the abbey garden...