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...called bubble years when Japan's economy was a more dominating force. In 2006, nearly 3 million people worldwide studied Japanese as a foreign language, triple the number who did in 1990, according to government statistics. "Foreigners used to learn Japanese for career reasons," says Tsutomu Sugiura, an adviser for the Marubeni Research Institute in Tokyo. "But today they learn because they are interested in Japanese culture." To help spread Japanese, the Japan Foundation, the nation's rough equivalent to the British Council or Germany's Goethe Institute, invites 500 foreign teachers from more than 50 nations to Japan each...
...engineers are forging the next-generation eco-car, there's little in the way of glamour. Here, innovation comes through team effort, and individual stars are hard to pinpoint. But Hori is no mere taskmaster. "He gives us the freedom to pursue our own ideas," says assistant manager Yohichi Sugiura, an engine expert...
...from Straus Hall--will be required to leave for one year for crashing Harvard's computer system three times during the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) testing. One Weld Hall freshman will be put on probation for one year for helping crash the system one time, said Thomas T. Sugiura '89, roommate of two of the freshmen...
After two of the students involved failed their QRR computer test, they decided to play a "prank," Sugiura said. Using a modem on an Apple IIC computer, the eight hooked into the computer system, he said...
They then repeatedly printed out, "This computer test sucks," about the requirement, which more than 600 freshmen still had not passed, Sugiura said. The messages "got worse," he said...