Word: kyoto
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...hope that these Kyoto Prizes will encourage balanced development of both our scientific and our spiritual sides, and hence provide new impetus toward the structuring of new philosophical paradigms,” said Foundation President Kazuo Inamori...
...November, the Inamori Foundation will present Whitesides with the Kyoto Prize—including a 20-karat gold medal, a diploma and 50 million yen (about $400,000) in Kyoto, Japan this November. The foundation awards three such prizes annually to individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of mankind in the fields of advanced technology, basic sciences and the arts and philosophy...
...containment continue to hobble Saddam forever, while we mustered a real coalition to confront North Korea, which is all but televising its efforts to build nuclear bombs. Instead of dismissing the overwhelming evidence that climate is changing, and alienating the 111 nations that have ratified or acceded to the Kyoto Treaty, the Administration could be leading the way to promote the technologies and policies that will be necessary to come to grips with a real threat to civilization...
...took over his father's job. Kenta's humble, self-effacing approach charmed some and annoyed others. Actor Takeshi Kitano, who played the original group's teacher in the first movie and reprises the role in flashback sequence, reportedly commented that the younger Fukasaku was "more polite than a Kyoto tea lady." Kenta insists that the finished product is a Kinji Fukasaku film, even though he directed almost all of it himself. "I thought of my task as completing my father's last movie, rather than making my first," he says...
...book follows the poignant story of the young, light-eyed daughter of a poor Japanese fisherman who is sold into slavery in a Geisha house in distant Kyoto...