Tag: Japan
Could the Philippines be the spark for the next global conflict?
A row over a tiny Filipino island in the South China Sea has ramped up tensions between the US and China
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Shinzo Abe’s troubling legacy
He was a giant of Japanese politics, but the hagiographies don’t tell the whole story
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The Tokyo Trial: Japan as America’s alien ally and child
How Uncle Sam browbeat the Japanese
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How Shinzo Abe failed
His reign as Japanese PM proved as ineffective as it was illiberal
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The Giants of Asia
2018 note: With their huge populations and buoyant growth rates, China and India are two of the economic and technological powerhouses of the twenty-first century. And though many seem to forget it after two lost decades, Japan is the third largest economy in the world, the second largest developed economy and the world’s largest creditor nation. Over the past 10 years, too, growth in Japanese GDP per head has also outpaced that of Europe and the US
Read the full article...Japan and China – could tension between them lead to war?
Japanese and Chinese diplomats met on Wednesday for urgent talks over a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea.
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The man who built Sony
Akio Morita, co-founder and chief executive of Sony, is possibly Japan’s most important post-war industrialist. This is a review of his book, written with Edwin Reingold and Mitsuko Shimomura, Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony (Collins)
Read the full article...How the East was won: Japan in the 20th century
The West usually attributes Japanese industrial success to innate national characteristics such as feudal loyalty, hard work and passivity
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In order to have precisely no influence on the climate, but to make powerful people feel good about themselves we will have to suffer energy rationing.
Their virtue, our pain.
Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls