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...maintain the aesthetic appeal of the shimmering paddies. The land would be ravaged by typhoons without well-tended rice fields, which act as sponges during heavy rains and are a buffer against erosion, according to farmers. "The rice paddies prevent floods and landslides and maintain the Japanese landscape," says Masahiro Konno, general manager at the WTO office of Japan's Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives. "A destruction of the rice farm will destroy agriculture in Japan...
...sense of entitlement and unrealistic expectations followed by depression and paralysis once the going gets tough. "People come in wanting to be designers or photographers or editors," she says, "but there are very few jobs in those fields posted here." While a few freeters may land fantasy jobs someday, Masahiro Yamada, a professor of sociology at Tokyo Gakugei University, is worried about the larger picture. "Freeters may choose the lifestyle at first, chasing a dream," he says. "But many will find themselves in middle age still chasing the dream." And he thinks the long-term effects are going...
...concentration of the energy (which is what matters for creating new and exotic particles) achieved by RHIC is much less than what Tevatron has been doing for many years,” Associate Professor of Physics Masahiro Morii wrote in an e-mail, alluding to a federally-financed accelerator west of Chicago...
...concentration of the energy (which is what matters for creating new and exotic particles) achieved by RHIC is much less than what Tevatron has been doing for many years,” Associate Professor of Physics Masahiro Morii wrote in an e-mail, alluding to a federally-financed accelerator west of Chicago...
...film to close the series and the last film that Ozu made before his death in 1987, An Autumn Afternoon (Samma no Aji) will screen on May 11. The film will be introduced by Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda, whose wife, Shima Iwashita, plays the role of the wife in Autumn Afternoon. The year it was made, the film won the Kinema Jumpo prize in Japan, an honor roughly analogous to the best picture Oscar in America...