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...Japanese radar. "It's sports, nature and bushfire, koala and kangaroo," Nakayama says of the popular perception. But with the 2006 Australia-Japan Year of Exchange marking the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between the two countries, museum director Norio Shimada together with Nakayama, who completed her fine-arts masters at the University of Adelaide, decided the time was right to add depth to the Australian image. Which is how 70 works by 35 artists now find themselves in the hallowed halls of Tokyo's Bridgestone Museum of Art for "Prism: Contemporary...
...glory of the Southern Hemisphere," the Australian orchestra's bass-heavy Sydney sound was let loose in the more rarefied acoustics of halls in Tokyo and Osaka. "The technique in Japan is really polished, highly trained, actually perfect?no mistakes," says Tokyo-raised, Sydney-based contrabassoonist Noriko Shimada. "I like the SSO because you do play...
...country is now backfiring massively. The high prices and poor consumer satisfaction that Japanese citizens encounter every day has spurred a never-ending cycle of depressed demand and low growth. "The quality of life in Japan is eroding and low domestic productivity is a primary reason why," says Haruo Shimada, a professor of economics at Tokyo's Keio University and a special advisor to the Cabinet Office. Japan's domestic economy has become the millstone around the nation's neck, slowly pulling it to the bottom of the pool...
...That's why a growing number of economists are declaring that it's time for a little creative destruction. "Stirring competition is the single-most-important strategy for driving productivity higher," says economics professor Shimada. "That means getting rid of government subsidies and tariffs for protected industries and dismantling quasi-governmental monopolies." But that is a lot easier said than done. For one thing, those protected industries have had plenty of time to develop powerful lobbying groups, which are now among the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's biggest contributors. Many Diet members, in fact, are known by which zoku (tribe...
...younger generation, has not strayed far from the established aesthetics of the house. Ask a European or an American fashion editor to name a fresh, up-and-coming Japanese face and you get only silence. A Japanese fashion editor will tell you which Japanese designers are showing - Junko Shimada, Atsuro Tsuyama and Yoshiki Hishinuma - but as Kaori Tsukamoto, fashion director for Vogue Japan, admitted in Paris: "I'm not going to those shows...