Word: masahiko
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...Professor Masahiko Okada of Niigata University School of Medicine questions the hype around the banana diet. The human body has three essential nutrients - carbohydrates, fat and protein -, he says, and "the golden rule is to balance these three nutrients and a daily calorie intake. Once you understand that, you don't have to be swayed by the fad diet any more, whether it is a konnyaku (alimentary yam paste) or a banana diet." But a nation prone to dieting fads often ignores such sober advice...
...book everyone was talking about last week at the first World Economic Forum (WEF) ever held in Tokyo was not Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat, or some other tome on globalization. It was a slim Japanese volume called The Dignity of a State. Written by mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara, the book is ostensibly a nostalgic call to return to ancient Japanese virtues. But it's also a shrill rant that blames free markets for a wide assortment of Japan's?and the world's?woes. "Globalism," Fujiwara writes, "is merely a strategy of the U.S. that seeks world domination...
...boasts one of the lowest unemployment rates, the second highest household income, and the fastest rising property values-and that economic muscle is pumping a boom in construction, retailing, fashion and plain old civic pride. "In many ways, this is one of the city's finest eras," says Masahiko Mori, president of Mori Seiki, a machine-tool company that has just relocated its headquarters from a neighboring prefecture to downtown Nagoya...
INVENTORS Susumu Tachi, Masahiko Inami and Naoki Kawakami AVAILABILITY Around 2008 TO LEARN MORE www.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
...that says Japanese society is based on shame while Western society is grounded in guilt. Japanese people do the right thing, the theory goes, out of fear of social censure; Westerners navigate by a moral compass guided by absolute standards. The Thirteen Steps, a thoughtful new film by director Masahiko Nagasawa, shows that Japan is not so easily pigeonholed. Based on an award-winning detective novel by Kazuaki Takano, The Thirteen Steps wrestles with the thorny issues of capital punishment, personal redemption and the value of human life. Its heroes are driven by the quandary of what to do when...