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...Kaoru Takasaki ’10 is working on a project that focuses on the atmospheric effects of the mercury in CFL bulbs in the same course by Wofsy. Like Chow, Takasaki said she was unaware that specific procedures were required for the disposal of CFL bulbs...
...recounts the method in which students from REP handed out CFL bulbs in Leverett House dining hall a few weeks ago. “They were simply asking if we wanted light bulbs, and not really explaining the risks,” says Takasaki, a former Crimson magazine writer. “There definitely needs to be more communication...
...artifacts. Terauchi's collection ended up at Yamaguchi Women's University, according to Nam Yong Chang, a Japanese academic of Korean ancestry, who says only a fraction of the collection was later returned to Korea. Everybody knew what it took to get things done in the colony, says Soji Takasaki, an art history professor at Tsudajuku University near Tokyo: "Japanese plied (Terauchi) with gifts of relics and statues to get jobs or win approval for business projects...
...sits in the Tokyo National Museum, including blue celadon vases, bronze Buddhas and a priceless, unique gold crown taken from the late 5th or early 6th century grave of a King from the Kaya dynasty. Koreans nicknamed Ogura the mole because he was so obsessed with buried treasure. Says Takasaki: "(Ogura) was one of the bad guys." A few dozen pieces are rotated through the display cabinets at a time, many marked "provenance unknown." Toyonobu Tani, head curator at the National Museum, says, "We take very good care of artifacts so they can be used for academic purposes by Japanese...
...Those monkeys were like angels," recalls Tamotsu Ueda, former mayor of Oita, Japan. It was an April day in 1958, and Emperor Hirohito himself had come with his Empress to visit Mount Takasaki Natural Monkey Park. When the monarch set foot in the park, some 500 monkeys, as if on cue, spilled out of the woods to welcome him. One affable creature even jumped up on the Empress's shoulder...