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This rigorous training in adaptation is now beginning to free their creativity. Michitaka Yoshioka, 59, who also studied at Cranbrook, teaches product design at Tsukuba University and lectures in India and China, says much the same about schoolwork. He also says: "Industrial design is no longer a matter of form giving, sketching pretty forms on paper. The definition of design incorporates thinking and inventing. We must, for instance, think about ways to recycle appliances. Consumers should be able to dismantle big things like refrigerators into small, disposable parts, rather than leave them in the alley...
...structures, punctuated now and then by smokestacks spewing black fumes. The 400-mile coastal strip from Tokyo to Osaka is the world's most densely industrialized tract of real estate: its factories produce more than half of Japan's $200 billion annual G.N.P. All this industry, says Michitaka Kaino, director of Tokyo's Research Institute for Environmental Protection, provided a kind of bestiary of kogai (pollution): "You name it; and from there I'll give you any kind of ecological monster known...
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