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...students spent three months as interns for various Japanese companies and institutions in a program arranged jointly by Harvard's East Asian Studies department and the Rotary Club of Okayama, the city where the students stayed...
...crew also followed Sarena S. Lin '93 to her job at the Okayama University of Science operations research laboratory. A computer science concentrator, Lin programmed computers to solve systems of linear equations...
...political experience. They wooed voters by calling themselves "ordinary women" and "mothers and housewives," and campaigned on such issues as education, welfare and ridding the political system of corruption. "Let the voice from the kitchen be heard in government," said Nobuko Mori, 57, a winning candidate from western Okayama...
Streaking at 125 miles an hour along the 420-mile scenic route between Tokyo and the central city of Okayama, Japan's gleaming, automated bullet trains have long been a keen source of pride to the country and the envy of railroad men the world over. Yet, beneath the bright image of the Shinkansen, or bullet express, most of the country's rail service, operated by the government-owned Japanese National Railways, is a tangled, money-losing mess of aged equipment, angry employees and boiling riders. So bad is the trouble that a few weeks ago, JNR President...
...skill. Its poison, tetrodotoxin, has proved almost impossible to isolate or identify. But Japanese science has finally turned the trick. For establishing the molecular structure of tetrodotoxin, Professors Kyosuke Tsuda of Tokyo University, Yoshimasa Hirata of Nagoya University, Isamu Nitta of Kwansei Gakuin University, and Akira Yokoo of Okayama University have just won the prestigious Asahi prize...