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...confront its cultural commitment to lifetime employment. All this downsizing, which has come on top of a severe three-year recession that ended last October, helped push Japan's traditionally low unemployment rate to 3% last year, the highest since 1987. "If the yen continues to appreciate," says Shigeki Tejima, a senior economist at the Export-Import Bank of Japan, "Japanese companies will be forced to stress international competitiveness more than maintaining jobs at home...
...they fly off in giant Vs that stretch across the Swan Sky (Philomel; $13.95). One season a female becomes too weak to travel. Her family is torn between staying with her and obeying the magnetic force that pulls them northward. With striking woodcuts in black, white and pervasive blue, Tejima, a Japanese artist, explains the cycle of the seasons and the migration of birds, which, like humans, carry on an unspoken dialogue with the changing face of nature...
Animals dominate the fantasies of children, but no one is sure what occupies the minds of animals. Tejima, a Japanese artist, offers one surmise in Fox's Dream (Philomel; $13.95). The furry protagonist is pictured in stark, evocative woodcuts as he prowls through wintry forests. His dream reveals that warm-blooded creatures differ more in style than substance. Like any sensible human, the quick brown fox longs for sunshine, warm days and someone to play with...
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