#japan

The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#any #case #changes #countries #country

The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#asian countries #bases #between #both #businesses

The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#asset #based #economic #economic growth #experience

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#assumed #concepts #dominant #japanese #position

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#houses #interior #into #japanese #melts

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#flexibility #greatest #japanese #lessons #most

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#because #best #community #comparisons #countries

The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#back #bit #different #different way #japan

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#brahms #debussy #different #different way #feeling

I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#attracted #been #culture #cultures #had