Word: ochanomizu
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...With senior citizens increasingly living away from family and a nationwide shortage of nursing homes, many are now living alone. "There is a kind of myth that older people in Japan are living in three-generational families, but that's not so anymore," says Takako Sodei, a gerontologist with Ochanomizu University in Tokyo. (See pictures of Japan in the 1980s and today...
...location. Situated in the middle of a rowdy Tokyo neighborhood called Ochanomizu?light years from the depressing nothingness of Ohda?Digital Hollywood's headquarters is surrounded by bookstores, cheap eateries and the capital's best universities. But Fujimoto these days is most at home in the glittering towers of Roppongi Hills, the urban development complex that has come to represent Japan's new superclass. Its avenues feature shops by Louis Vuitton, Issey Miyake, agn?s b. and Anna Sui and some of the city's best restaurants. Two residential blocks in the development are among Tokyo's most prestigious addresses...
...than full capacity. Given the tight job market for graduates, universities are realizing that they must attract students by expanding beyond their traditional role as prep schools for corporate Japan. The Kanazawa Institute of Technology boasts a career-services program that secures jobs for 99% of its graduates, while Ochanomizu Women's University offers child-care services to draw in mature students. Other schools are discounting application fees, while some are resorting to American-style innovations: nearly half accept interviews and essays in place of written entrance exams; and venerable Kyoto University, the second oldest college in Japan, even offers...
...Make it quick!]" For the two officers stationed at the Ochanomizu police box in the heart of Tokyo, the complaints were typical. Within 15 minutes they had soothed the be reft woman with a promise to be on the lookout for her pet (it was found), lent the penniless youth 560 yen ($2.33) from a special emergency fund in exchange for a signed IOU (four out of five such loans are repaid) and radioed for a patrol car to break up the marital battle. Said Sergeant Shigeo Takahashi, grinning with satisfaction: "You stand here for a quarter of an hour...
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