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...journal Na- ture, additional experiments showed that whenever the Paramecium's cellular machinery read either of two "periods" (TAG and TAA) in the standard code, it linked the amino acid glutamine onto the protein chain rather than stopping production; it obeyed only the third word for stop, TGA. At Nagoya University in Japan, scientists have found that Mycoplasma also ignores a stop triplet. But in this case it is TGA that is translated into an amino acid, tryptophan, while the other two codons are read as stop. "Within a certain sphere," says Biologist Syozo Osawa, "it seems that change...
...Nagoya, Japan...
...adoption of Western classical music by Japan has been remarkable. There are nine professional symphony orchestras in Tokyo alone, with others in such major cities as Osaka, Nagoya and Kyoto. There is a booming recital scene, featuring both native artists and foreign performers who come to Japan attracted by the high fees and attentive, respectful audiences. Music schools turn out string players and pianists who are the equal of any in their technical command and knowledge of the repertory...
...scene was like an eerie science fiction movie. At midnight in Nagoya, Japan, the new plant of the Yamazaki Machinery Works was deserted. The cavernous, corrugated-metal building was shrouded in darkness. The only worker in the plant was a night watchman, who patrolled the factory with a flashlight. Nonetheless, the Yamazaki Machinery Works was running at full speed, rilling the night with screeches and clangs as eight-ton metal castings were milled and moved throughout the plant, untouched by human hands...
...although General Motors actively recruits productivity suggestions from employees and offers up to $10,000 for a proposal that is adopted, the company receives an average of less than one suggestion per employee per year and adopts one-third of the ideas. At Toyota's main plant near Nagoya, on the other hand, officials receive more than nine suggestions per worker per year and adopt the vast majority of them...