Japanese Education

Next class is a test on Japanese eduction.
The questions are made from the following powerpoint.
You don't have to remember the tedious numbers in the stats like there are 87 national universities in Japan which is 12.3% of the total number of the universities... etc.
I don't think I could make many questions from this, so the next test will have only... maybe 10 questions or so...

Financial crisis 'calls for stable growth'

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/20081119TDY02307.htm

Japan just recovered from the 1990s "asset price bubble" and 2000s global slowdown in 2005, now suffers again from the financial crisis.

Japan, as the most developed nation in Asia, usually aim a longer term compare to the US. The Japanese companies' goals are often set for the next 5-10 years or even longer; while American ones aim shorter.

Although it is a hard time for the world recently and specially for the graduates, the economy has touched the bottom and all it needs is time to recover.

Movie Review

Japanese Movie Festival tonight at 5pm at CHHS 155
"Graves of Fireflies"

Please write your short movie review as comments on this post.

Interesting read from what we were discussing in class tonight.
NY Times

War time feelings die hard

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200811030050.html

This could prove to be quite controversial. The real question is how much truth is there to it. The U.S. was involved in the war prior to Pearl Harbor, just was not using active forces yet. Also as we see by the Atlantic Charter the U.S. had clear intentions of joining the war as it was signed previous to U.S. military forces joining the war. Further, what roles did China possibly play in inciting aggression and did the lives of the Koreans improve in any way? Im not condoning the war time action of any of the countries, just simply recalling that there are always two sides to a story and the truth is usually lies in the middle. (no pun intended)