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...northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, his biggest passion was video games. But amping up the onscreen action required Wu to master Japanese commands. Japan's brutal wartime occupation of Shenyang and other parts of China, which continues to stoke Chinese anger today, mattered little in the face of achieving total domination in his favorite video game. Both the computer and linguistic skills have since paid off. Today, Wu, 27, works in Tokyo as a software consultant, part of an influx of highly skilled Chinese labor that is transforming Japan. "Success can come in many places," he says, quietly noting that...
...million strong, Chinese legal immigrants now make up the largest group of recently arrived foreigners in Japan - and, no, they're not just stirring woks or taking the graveyard shift at convenience stores. More than 80,000 Chinese students are studying at Japanese universities, two-thirds of Japan's total foreign college-student population. Upon graduation, they are entering the Japanese workforce, crowding lucrative fields such as IT and biotech. Sheer numbers work in China's favor; each year Japan graduates 100,000 science majors, while China pumps out 2.5 million...
...Numbers column erroneously reported that three black women have appeared on the cover of Vogue since its founding in 1892. That number represented only black women entertainers. The magazine has in fact featured a total of 33 black women on its cover...
...creation of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) in February 2004 and its subsequent expansion in 2006. Parents in families with incomes of less than $60,000 are no longer expected to contribute to their children’s costs of attending at Harvard. Families that earn a total income of between $60,000 and $80,000 have their expected contributions reduced, and are supported by additional initiatives...
...from the charity stripe and sinking half of the three-pointers he dared. Junior guard Andrew Pusar found the bottom of the net with regularity, missing only one field goal and going 2-of-2 both from beyond the arc and the foul line, racking up a total of 18 points for the visiting team. Sophomore forward Pat Magnarelli notched 11 points in the losing effort.“[Housman and Pusar] were certainly the main reason we had an opportunity to keep it within striking distance,” Amaker said. “I thought they gave...