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...Media images like this may be contrived, but behind them lies the truth that's the salvation of many overworked fathers: namely, men who play a fuller role at home often find it energizing and cheering rather than an additional cause of exhaustion. For his children's sake, Masato Yamada took a year off from his job at Japan's Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and was so delighted with the experience that he wrote a book: METI Assistant Manager Yamada is Currently on Paternity Leave. "Many people take their jobs very seriously-to the degree that...
...Many of Japan's breweries have pubs nearby or on the premises, so patrons can sip their jibiiru fresh from the brewer. At the T. Y. Harbor Brewery Restaurant and Bar in Tokyo, (81-3) 5479 4555, gleaming aluminum tanks of premium beer fill the cavernous interior. Manager Masato Tajima recommends the original Tennoz pale ale, which goes well with the restaurant's Californian cuisine...
...Cute. But is this bucket of bolts smart enough to get me a beer? To Masato Hirose, senior chief engineer at the Honda lab, this is not a facetious question. Since 1986, Honda researchers have been trying to build a robot that could balance and walk naturally like a human. With ASIMO (short for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), mission accomplished. Now they are moving on to the next epochal challenge: creating a generation of humanoid machines that boast the kind of butlering skills of classic science fiction robots. "Imagine a machine that's as versatile as a human...
...Tokyo artist Masato Nakamura, whose shrine of McDonald's arches recently graced the Venice Biennale, comments on a different kind of war?a cultural one. For his Sydney installation Minimal Selves, 2001, Nakamura liaised with eight convenience-store chains to reproduce their neon logos in a darkened gallery space. While such works might suggest the victory of Western corporate culture over Tokyo's skyline, the effect is peculiarly Japanese. Beautifully serene, not submissive, Nakamura's lightbox logos form a chapel in which the viewer can meditate on the future. Having grown up in "this neon generation," he says...
Japanese filmmaker Masato Harada will be directing the movie, part of which will be filmed along the Charles River from October...