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...These ideas and others were addressed last month at a one-day conference exploring integrated lake-basin management for the Udaipur lakes, hosted by Mewar at his Fateh Prakash Hotel beside Lake Pichola. Masahisa Nakamura, director of the Center for Sustainability and Environment at Japan's Shiga University and chairman of the International Lake Environment Committee Foundation's scientific committee, identified several human factors that are to blame for the lakes' sorry state: deforestation, construction of new hotels and private homes too close to the lakes, sewage and waste dumping, and poor governance, bribes and corruption. Nakamura was particularly critical...
...economical concept," says Hiroyuki Torigoe, a sociology professor at Waseda University in Tokyo. "It's a mentality." When Japan was a developing country enamored of American consumption and consumerism, Japanese people thought mottainai was outmoded, says Yukiko Kada, a former professor of environmental sociology who today is governor of Shiga prefecture. Now, Japanese people are rediscovering a desire to seek "spiritual and mental satisfaction" because their basic material needs are largely fulfilled, she says. "The environment has drastically changed," says Kada. "Twenty or 30 years ago there were many fish in lakes and rivers. But that has changed drastically...
...NAMED. TOSHIYUKI SHIGA, 51, as chief operating officer of Nissan Motor Co.; replacing current chief executive Carlos Ghosn, who has turned around the struggling carmaker since his hiring in 1999; in Tokyo. Shiga, a 29-year Nissan veteran, most recently ran company operations outside of North America, Europe and Japan and is credited with boosting sales in China and Southeast Asia. He will report directly to Ghosn, who in April assumes a dual role as president and CEO of both Nissan and its parent company Renault...
...industry pros, were handed out with the skew towards the mainstream that the Eisner's are known for. A complete list of winners can be found here. However, there were two highlights of the presentations. The "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" award went, most appropriately, to Jason Shiga. Like one his playful comix come to life (see TIME.comix review), Shiga sent an imposter (actually F.C. Brandt) to receive the award. Wearing a black wig and dark glasses the clearly false Shiga then regaled the audience with an absurd shaggy dog story about being born on a desert island...
...Andrew D. Arnold Where's Shiga? The Eisner winners pose with an imposter in the lower right...