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...estimated 80% of 1,118 major Japanese companies will not hire any women graduates this year, according to a survey by Nippon Recruit Center, a private research and publishing firm. The women they hire will be coming straight from high school. Moreover, once employed, women face discrimination in, or outright exclusion from, most training programs and are rarely in a position to receive such benefits as transportation, housing and family allowances, which are available to heads of households. Except in a few jobs like nursing, they are also excluded by law from working between...
...ubiquitous paper fan. When Okada finally issued the verdict, Tanaka listened with his eyes closed. The three-judge panel found Tanaka guilty of having accepted $2 million in bribes from the Lockheed Corp. during the early 1970s in return for persuading Japan's largest domestic airline, All Nippon Airways, to buy the company's TriStar jets. He was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $2 million, the amount of the bribe.* At one particularly somber moment, Judge Okada looked directly at the former Prime Minister and sadly noted that his actions had brought "irreparable damage...
...technological skills, Japanese science still suffers from a copycat syndrome. The Japanese often feel it is better to mimic or borrow than originate. Says Electrical Engineer Michiyuki Uenohara, director of Nippon Electric's research labs: "The label of imitator is valid-Japanese research is derivative...
...Western music is primarily popular today with the younger people," says Tadashi Mori, permanent conductor of the NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, or Japan Broadcasting Corp.) Symphony and a professor at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. "The young people were crazy about rock when the Beatles were popular. Now they go to the classics." But not always just to hear the music. Says Syuji Fujii, chief director of the music division at NHK: "Music is used to make friends, to get a wife. These are just temporary music lovers...
...Until the arrival of talking pictures in 1931, audiences depended upon spellbinding narrators called benshi to interpret the on-screen action; many were more popular than the country's movie stars. Though Japanese cinema was a strong force in Asia (so much so that in Thailand the word nippon came to mean movies), its films were virtually unknown in the West. Haifa century later it would take an alliance of television, video games and indifferent product to reduce Japan to the status of also-ran among national cinemas. As Film Historian Joseph Anderson wrote last year, "The Japanese film...