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...internationally competitive workforce. "Our students need to globalize to be leaders," says Yuichiro Anzai, president of Keio University, a top private university in Tokyo. Do they have an international outlook today? "Not yet," Anzai says. "We are lacking a sense of the crisis that we face," says Akiyoshi Yonezawa, an education expert at the Center for the Advancement of Higher Education at Tohoku University in Sendai. "This society is becoming more and more disadvantaged year by year." For Japan, the "age when all are accepted to college" may turn out to be less carefree than it sounds...
...Billing the restaurant as a modern chophouse, chef Fumio Yonezawa has produced a chic take on hearty fare - the root beer-braised short ribs are a must, as is the grilled chicken with kabocha puree and jalapeño. Cocktails run the range from classic to creative. Rose and plum liquors are used liberally in drinks like Broadway Rose (rose liqueur and sparkling wine) and Central Park (plum liqueur, vodka, mango juice and chili). But the most popular cocktails are the 57 martini, flavored with Grand Marnier, and the Big Apple martini, made with apple schnapps. Rarely have apples...
...Born in the city of Yonezawa in 1933, and obsessed with cameras since buying his first as a teenager, Hosoe is recognized today as one of Japan's greatest and most remarkable photographers. A major exhibition of his work, covering pieces from as far back as the 1960s (including images never previously exhibited), runs at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography until Jan. 28. For more details, see tokyo-photo-museum.or.jp
...prominent female scientists say there is a tacit prejudice against women. A bioinformatics professor, Mitiko Go says that many professors will choose a man over an equally qualified woman, believing that a woman will quit as soon as she marries or has children. After graduate school, Fumiko Yonezawa, a professor of theoretical physics and the first woman to lead the Physical Society of Japan in its more than 100-year history, was not hired as a full-time faculty member until she had proved that she could raise her three daughters while continuing with her research. "I had fun keeping...
...decided to reserve one of its 26 board seats for a woman. But Japan has a long way to go before it fully utilizes the female half of its national brainpower. "I joke that women scientists have the advantage of a woman's intuition and patience," says Yonezawa. "But, really, being a scientist has nothing to do with being a man or a woman. Women simply haven't been given the chance...
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