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...Japan dithers at its peril. Nations such as South Korea are building education systems geared to produce an 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Class Dismissed | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

Alpine climber Yuichiro Miura knows something about rapid descent?in 1970 he became the first person ever to ski Mount Everest, hurtling more than a mile down the peak's icy flank in less than two minutes, and barely surviving. But handling the downhill slope of his own life proved trickier. Miura retired from climbing at age 60, deciding he was too old to haul himself up mountains anymore, but after five lazy years of Japanese beer and Korean barbecue, he had an epiphany: "I was only talking about my past, not my future. I wanted to challenge my dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living It Up | 10/10/2005 | See Source »

...year, led a consortium that bought MGM and its valuable film library. In the first three quarters of 2004, Sony's U.S. operations kicked in 30% of the company's revenue. "Stringer got this job with the expectations that he will accomplish something similar throughout the entire company," says Yuichiro Yamagata, editor in chief of the Weekly Toyo Keizai business magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Shadows | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

...Yuichiro Miura of Japan, who this month became the oldest person ever to climb Mount Everest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

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