Topic for Global e-Forum December Issue is “How Should We Evaluate Prime Minister Hatoyama’s Proposal of Reducing CO2 by 25%?”
This September, Prime Minister Hatoyama said that Japan would seek to reduce its greenhouse gas emission by 25% by 2020 compared to the 1990 level at the UN Summit on Climate Change.
We are asking experts for their comments on Mr. Hatoyama’s remark.
We will post the issue and expert’s comments on next Monday, December 7 Japan time.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Haruki World
The December issue of JAPAN CLOSE-UP has been published!
JAPAN CLOSE-UP is an English-language monthly magazine bringing you the latest news on Japanese business, products, culture, society, trends, and people.
One of featured articles on the issue is "Haruki World".
If you're troubled by cats that talk, skies that rain sardines, sheep that hijack people's brains, girls that vanish into other universes and superfrogs that save Tokyo, then Haruki Murakami may not be for you.
But prepare to find yourself in a shrinking minority. Even the critics, once huffily disdainful, are rethinking their earlier hostility. They may be baffled by the enthusiasm Murakami's fiction arouses among readers worldwide — in an age, moreover, when popular passions have lately tended to pass literature by — but they cannot help acknowledging it, or admitting, however grudgingly, that a writer with Murakami's impact must have a finger on the secret pulses of the time.
What are those pulses? What does Murakami's fiction tell us about ourselves?
Read more http://www.export-japan.com/jcu/sample/index.php?page=haruki-world
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JAPAN CLOSE-UP is an English-language monthly magazine bringing you the latest news on Japanese business, products, culture, society, trends, and people.
One of featured articles on the issue is "Haruki World".
If you're troubled by cats that talk, skies that rain sardines, sheep that hijack people's brains, girls that vanish into other universes and superfrogs that save Tokyo, then Haruki Murakami may not be for you.
But prepare to find yourself in a shrinking minority. Even the critics, once huffily disdainful, are rethinking their earlier hostility. They may be baffled by the enthusiasm Murakami's fiction arouses among readers worldwide — in an age, moreover, when popular passions have lately tended to pass literature by — but they cannot help acknowledging it, or admitting, however grudgingly, that a writer with Murakami's impact must have a finger on the secret pulses of the time.
What are those pulses? What does Murakami's fiction tell us about ourselves?
Read more http://www.export-japan.com/jcu/sample/index.php?page=haruki-world
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Monday, November 16, 2009
President Obama & Matcha Ice Cream
Embassy of the United States invited me to hear “President Obama’s Inaugural Speech in Asia” at Suntory Hall in Akasaka, Tokyo last Saturday.
Suntory Hall is managed and operated by Suntory Holdings Limited, a beverage company.
The US Embassy asked the audiences whether they would come to Suntory Hall by 8:00 a.m. So, I had left my house at around 7:00 a.m. Since public transportations in Tokyo went smoothly, I could arrive there at 7:50 a.m. But, people had already made a long line.
At a time to open main entrances of the hall, we could move and enter inside smoothly, I thought. But, it was not easy to do. On the way to the waiting, we had heavy rain. We opened an umbrella. We were standing each other at close range. An umbrella which a person next to me had held touched me and I got rain drops from the umbrella.
While we were waiting for 20 minutes, the line had come to get out of shape. If a group related to the Japanese government or corporation had hosted such event, they must have put persons who would guide along the line to maintain of order.
I could see many commentators and journalists who were much appeared on TV when I waited.
After I had been screened, I could finally enter inside at around 9:15 a.m. Then, I had waited for another house. President Obama came onstage 10 minutes after ten, and stared his speech.
President’s speech was consisted of US policies toward Asia. Aside from those, what I felt interested in the speech was an episode that his mother took young President to Kamakura, an ancient city in Kanagawa prefecture.
Mr. Obama told that he had been more focused on-- as a child-- the matcha (powered green tea) ice cream than the bronze Amida Buddha. Oh, young Obama was a real expert in Japanese ice cream because he chose match, the taste that an adult is fond of. With the episode, I imagined Mr. President’s good old memory with his mother.
“Obama-Matcha-Ice-Cream” may be on sale before long in Kamakura.
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Suntory Hall is managed and operated by Suntory Holdings Limited, a beverage company.
The US Embassy asked the audiences whether they would come to Suntory Hall by 8:00 a.m. So, I had left my house at around 7:00 a.m. Since public transportations in Tokyo went smoothly, I could arrive there at 7:50 a.m. But, people had already made a long line.
At a time to open main entrances of the hall, we could move and enter inside smoothly, I thought. But, it was not easy to do. On the way to the waiting, we had heavy rain. We opened an umbrella. We were standing each other at close range. An umbrella which a person next to me had held touched me and I got rain drops from the umbrella.
While we were waiting for 20 minutes, the line had come to get out of shape. If a group related to the Japanese government or corporation had hosted such event, they must have put persons who would guide along the line to maintain of order.
I could see many commentators and journalists who were much appeared on TV when I waited.
After I had been screened, I could finally enter inside at around 9:15 a.m. Then, I had waited for another house. President Obama came onstage 10 minutes after ten, and stared his speech.
President’s speech was consisted of US policies toward Asia. Aside from those, what I felt interested in the speech was an episode that his mother took young President to Kamakura, an ancient city in Kanagawa prefecture.
Mr. Obama told that he had been more focused on-- as a child-- the matcha (powered green tea) ice cream than the bronze Amida Buddha. Oh, young Obama was a real expert in Japanese ice cream because he chose match, the taste that an adult is fond of. With the episode, I imagined Mr. President’s good old memory with his mother.
“Obama-Matcha-Ice-Cream” may be on sale before long in Kamakura.
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Next Issue Is "Pandemic Panic"
The November issue of the PHP Global e-Forum is "How Can We Avoid a Pandemic Panic?"
Experts who comments on the issue are as of today:
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Experts who comments on the issue are as of today:
- Dr. Philip Alcabes (Associate Professor of Urban Public Health at Hunter College in the City University of New York)
- Boston Public Health Commission (Boston, Massachusetts)
- Dr. John Carnie (Chief Health Officer for Department of Health, Victoria)
- Dr. Koya Hakozaki (Director and Clinic Manager of First Department of Internal Medicine, Self-Defense Forces Central Hospital)
- Dr. Oliver Pybus (Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
- Mr. Yokoo Toshihiko (Mayor of Taku City in Saga Prefecture)
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