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...hard, I could return to those days very vividly,” he says. Always aggressively individual, he felt alienated by the group mentality that he says pervades Japanese society. Instead of following his parents’ wishes and joining the corporate world after graduating from Waseda University in Tokyo, he and his wife opened a jazz club, Peter...
...Marino heads to Tokyo, he seeks out the city's more traditional--and simple--sites, including the shitamachi, or low city. "This city is a succession of villages, and in each one the atmosphere is that of a different world," he explains. One of his favorite routes is from Waseda University down to the Minowabashi station on the Arakawa tram line. "It's a part of Tokyo that did not burn during World War II, so you can still find the small houses and the covered markets of the past," he explains. "And the people all know each other." Another...
...button pension-reform issue-and his history as a committed consensus-builder, they say, have made him a potent contrast to Koizumi, whom voters have begun to think of as imperious and impulsive. "Okada is a leader for the times," says Etsushi Tanifuji, a political-science professor at Waseda University in Tokyo. "After 9/11, politics in some way had to be very speedy. But voters are realizing that speedy can be sloppy." If Okada can keep the DPJ's momentum going, he may soon have reason to replace his current parliamentary motto with another classic Japanese saying: Teki zai teki...
Koichi Iwabuchi, a professor visiting from Waseda University in Japan, spoke about the social uses of cute. Iwabuchi described the social atmosphere of Japan as “very dark, very tough,” offering an explanation of the popularity of kawaii as a reaction to this toughness. Meanwhile, Thorn suggested that kawaii is used as “a playful parody of a patriarchal culture.” Hello Kitty as the face of resistance? Maybe...
...legal population from getting out of control by making the national bar exam notoriously difficult. But with courts backlogged and lawsuits mushrooming, the scarcity of lawyers is becoming dire. "There are lots of cities in Japan without a single lawyer," says Hiroshi Asako, a dean at the newly opened Waseda Law School in Tokyo. The Japanese Diet passed a bill in 2002 allowing universities to establish graduate law schools, and the "if you build it, they will come" approach is working. Waseda, one of Japan's largest law schools with 300 first-year students, received 15 times as many applications...