At the time, baseball at the Big Six universities was the highest caliber baseball in Japan. After he graduated he played in the industrial leagues (which pre-date genuinely professional baseball in Japan). He then joined the Giants as soon as that was an option. The other player on the ...
China's State Post Bureau has co-initiated a campaign to promote green packaging in 6 universities across the country, calling for the use of harmless, disposable and recyclable packages. China to expand preschool education coverage The central government Tuesday said it aimed to give 85 percent ...
However, the reaction from Japanese nationals (as opposed to Japanese-Americans) is mixed. I haven't been to Japan, but I have spoken to Japanese nationals who attended my lectures at universities and bookstores. A few have reacted defensively, voicing fears that this book might somehow give ...
According to Prof (iirc) Scobell, the end result is that the Chinese are not particularly reluctant to use force to protect “their” territory and that the Chinese government has a strategic conception of war; if strategic needs are met, then operational victory can be damned. This m...
The anecdotes concern some of Japan’s most reputable universities. A Hosei University professor speaks of students who, asked to translate a passage from English to Japanese, are reduced to writing their translations in hiragana because they don’t know kanji. A Chuo University professor recalls ...
Osaka University was founded in 1931 as one of the seven imperial universities of Japan and is now one of Japan's leading comprehensive universities with a broad disciplinary spectrum. This strength is coupled with a singular drive for innovation that extends throughout the scientific process, from...
Many students finish the compulsory courses in three years so that they can have one year without any classes. They often use this period of time to study abroad, conduct research and travel. Many students even suspend their study for additional study-abroad opportunities. Japanese universities enc...
racial reasons. Since then, baseball has been getting more attention from the Japanese public. Many universities formed baseball teams because of them. And through baseball, we can see the acculturation between traditional Japanese sports — such as sumo and Kendo — with sports that came from ...
many Japanese Americans–like victims of Stockholm Syndrome where the prisoner identifies with the goals of their powerful captors–internalized and still use these stereotypical and divisive labels … (W)hy is it necessary to demonize the imprisoned Japanese American minority that had the “baka guts...
That lesson explains grammar and introduces vocabulary. And then . . . whooosh, you might as well send them to Siberia. Japanese kids have tons of words and a smattering of grammar, but no examples of how to use the stuff in action. They need reinforcement: real-world materials showing ...