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...additional dam still scheduled to go up just 40 kilometers away, the Arase dam's deconstruction may only prove that the Japanese government can spend money even when it's removing something. But some observers insist this could be the first crack in the nation's overpriced fa?ade. Says Takayoshi Igarashi, a professor at Hosei University in Tokyo and an expert on Japan's public spending: 'This is a revolutionary change. There have been some cases to stop dam construction, but this is one step forward.' Perhaps the floodgates of reform really have opened...
...Noted "Given the exceptional atmosphere of the event, we must face the possibility of unwanted babies fathered by foreigners who rape our women." TAKAYOSHI KONNO, Local politician, on Japan's fears of British hooliganism at the World...
...chimpanzee-like animal they had long been calling a pygmy chimp was in fact an entirely separate species. In the decades that followed, the physical differences between the newly recognized bonobo and its larger cousin were thought to be all that distinguished them. Then, in the 1970s, Japanese primatologist Takayoshi Kano began observing bonobos in the wild and noticed a key difference: in the bonobo culture, unlike the chimp or human culture, males were not the dominant gender...
...method, developed in 1958, has had considerable success in Japan. Last year Kumon sent an old friend, retired auto dealer Takayoshi Sogo, to try to sell the program to American schools. So far, 196 in the South and Southwest have taken the offer. "I didn't see any reason why this system wouldn't work in America," says Sogo. "We have merely taken universal techniques and applied them to give each student the self-confidence to tackle his regular math courses...
...seats in the lower house, bringing their total down to 86. The moderate Democratic Socialists did not fare much better, dropping sharply, from 37 seats to 26. The centrist, Buddhist-oriented Clean Government Party did slightly better, losing only two of its 59 seats. Commented Tokyo Political Analyst Takayoshi Miyagawa: "It is more accurate to say that the opposition parties were badly beat up rather than that the L.D.P...