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...come to mean crowded trains, high-tech gadgets, efficient systems, cool reserve--a neon blur, in the imagination, of pencil-thin high-rises in which traders in dark suits mutter into cell phones. Or, if not the hard realism of Tokyo's office blocks, then the gossamer romance of Kyoto's teahouses, all exquisite restraint and antique silence. Though both these sides are suddenly in evidence in Olympic Nagano, for most of its life the city and the village venues all around it have offered a down-home, uncrowded, friendly Japan where some of the hard hats along Kencho-dori...
...Rose Show wearing a FUBU T shirt, the company received phone calls the next day from viewers asking where they could buy one. And the best barometers of mainstream America, Japanese junior high students, are buying the look almost exclusively, dragging their wide-bottom jeans through the streets of Kyoto and Tokyo. Phat Farm, the cartoonishly rural-themed stores selling the hip-hop label started by Russell Simmons, the founder of Def Jam Records, says one-third of its customer base is in Asia...
...citizens seek justice for the suffering wrought by environmental criminals. In the current atmosphere of rampant greed, it may be difficult to imagine such a scenario. But unless some form of enlightenment quickly spurs the leaders of all nations to adopt measures even stricter than those agreed to in Kyoto, the tribunals are inevitable, and there will be nowhere for the guilty to hide. The earth is our mother and our child. What greater joy could there be than seeing her smile again? KEN BARNES Kanazawa, Japan...
Statements from U.S. corporations implying that they cannot possibly comply with the Kyoto agreement are laughable given the response of foreign industrial giants such as Honda and Toyota, already worlds ahead in clean, energy-efficient technology. The Kyoto accord represents recognition by forward-thinking people that the economics of environmental sustainability are, in the long run, the best ones: best for the environment and, yes, best for the people. But let the political misinformation machine roll on! NICK PORCH Boulder, Colo...
After hot debates and serious negotiations at the Kyoto summit on climate change, the European Union, the U.S. and Japan agreed on a treaty with specific targets for each party [ENVIRONMENT, Dec. 22]. Vice President Al Gore, however, announced afterward that the agreement would not be presented to the U.S. Senate for ratification until developing countries have joined the pact. I wonder if he thinks they will participate in the treaty in a reasonable period of time. I suspect that the U.S. went to Kyoto with no intention of being serious about the agreements to be reached there. The value...