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...ties between Tokyo and Beijing. He is already getting the full VIP treatment during his May 6 to 10 tour. Hu will meet with Fukuda, then with the Emperor and Empress, and visit Yokohama's Chinatown as well as the historic city of Nara and the financial center of Osaka. Symbolically, it is already an important trip: it is Hu's first overseas trip since the 17th National Congress confirmed him as President last October. A giant panda would be the perfect diplomatic exclamation point to the visit. Or so the Japanese hope. Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said that...
Tadao Ando is a committed environmentalist. An architect with no formal training, he's probably best known for the Church of Light in Osaka, Japan. It features no ornament, but when light hits it, the rays form a cross that moves depending on the mood...
...social, cultural, and academic exchange programs between Harvard and six universities throughout Asia, and I was more than determined to turn HCAP into a culinary pilgrimage. I asked everyone who had lived in or visited Japan to list the best restaurants in the city—a layover in Osaka or a grandmother at the base of Mount Fuji counted you as an expert enough. I emailed Professor Ted Bestor, author of “Tsukiji”—a 400-page tome on the fish market in Tokyo—and begged him to compile...
...accepted to college." Big schools such as Tokyo University, which receives 40% of its funding from the government, are trying to goose head count by establishing more graduate schools and by adding postgraduate courses for working professionals and retirees. Smaller, underfunded colleges must take more drastic action. For example, Osaka University and Osaka University of Foreign Studies merged in October; two other Osaka schools - Kwansei Gakuin University and Seiwa College, both of which have been around for more than a century - are slated to combine next year...
That pressure has pitted manufacturers against one another to come up with thinner, lighter, cleaner LCDs. Sharp plans to build a $3.4billion factory near Osaka to produce bigger screens more efficiently. Yet, Teragawa says, as flat screens grew in popularity, the products became virtually indistinguishable from one another...