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Harnessing Ties Among Factories for Monozukuri
Mr. Takashi Tanaka President Yasuhisa Koki Biomechanics Co. Tokyo’s Ota-ku is well known for its many small and medium-sized neighborhood factories possessing world-class technological strength. At...
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Café Interview “I want to become just like a hot spring itself!” Mayumi...
Mayumi Yamazaki, Hot-Spring Essayist This time IHCSA Café had a talk with Mayumi Yamazaki, who is active as a nonfiction writer and hot-spring essayist. Because of her efforts to convey Japanese onsen...
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Enjoying Communication at the Kyoto International Manga Museum
Recently I went along to the Kyoto International Manga Museum (MM), which, apart from a new building, occupies an old elementary school previously attended by local children. The stout concrete walls...
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Experiencing Japanese Culture in Kyoto (WAK Japan)
Many foreign tourists visit Kyoto. No doubt they get a sense of Japanese culture from the historic temples and shrines, the Kyoto-style machiya (traditional townhouses) exuding the warmth of timber,...
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Leaves Change Fortunes of Depopulated Town
The demographic phenomena of depopulation and aging accompanied by a low birthrate are advancing in Japan. But there is a community where the elderly residents and younger newcomers and returnees...
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Nishiaizu International Art Village
Nishiaizu International Art Village occupies a wooden former school building. My interest was piqued when I heard about a run-of-the-mill rural community in Fukushima Prefecture that is attracting...
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