Activities to ring in year of the sheep
Usually, the New Year holiday season in Japan is a time to spend with family and many people go back to their hometowns, while others stay indoors for television-watching marathons. Therefore, with the exception of some shopping areas, Tokyo is relatively quiet compared with ...
Major genomics program underway
A revolutionary project by the British government will get fully under way in 2015 to realize "personalized medicine" for cancers and rare diseases by analyzing as many as 100,000 genomes from patients and their relatives. The project is aimed at promptly detecting mutations in genes ...
Female entrepreneurs lead way in employing women
Long before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared empowering women in the economy to be an essential pillar of his "Abenomics" strategy, Kyoko Higashiyama made it a rule in her company to create opportunities for women to land full-time employment and be able to work ...
Donald Keene reflects on 70-year Japan experience
My first visit to Japan was very short, only a week or so in December 1945. Three months earlier, while on the island of Guam, I had heard the broadcast by the Emperor announcing the end of the war. Soon afterward, I was sent ...
Looking back on, preserving traditional New Year's activities
"Shogatsu," the term for the New Year's holidays in Japanese, is a time when people take the first three days of the New Year off to spend time relaxing with their families and engaging in traditional activities to remind themselves of their heritage. Japanese children, ...
