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November 13, 2018

90 percent of Japanese believe robots will replace humans






"Nearly 90% think robots and computers will be doing much of the work currently done by humans in the next half century. Some 83% see this causing greater inequality, 74% believe people will have trouble finding work and 58% think automation will not generate better jobs."


Source:
Japanese fear automation will take more jobs than foreigners
Pew survey: Only 15% of adults feel youths will be better off than their parents
ANDREW SHARP, Nikkei Asian Review deputy politics and economy news editor

November 13, 2018 




November 01, 2018

Book Review Footprints in the snow by Kenjiro Tokutomi













Author: Kenjiro Tokutomi


Translator: Kenneth Strong


Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, Tokyo, Japan, 1971


ISBN: 0293-000247-4615


Pages: 371




A novel about growing up in the Meiji Period

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A novel set in the Meiji period between 1860 and 1900 that reveals the hardships of the time where families lost their fortunes easily and the impact this had on people families and lives.
We learn the about the good and bad sides of relatives, the social impact of dramatic change in society, we gain insights into men’s and women’s worlds, social interactions including arranged marriages, the importance of education in order to get ahead and get noticed. Clothing, food, fashion and social customs of the period. Politics and its impact on everyday people, the need for guarantors for accommodation and the complexity of love in an open environment where people had little privacy.
The tale of one man’s struggle to rebuild his family’s name and wealth.



  





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October 01, 2018

Book Review: Five Women Who Loved Love by Ihara Saikaku





















Author: Ihara Saikaku


Translator: William Theodore De Bary


Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc (February 1993)


ISBN: 978-4770016904


Pages: 248






A collection of short stories on women who love love



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 A collection of five short stories by Ihara Saikaku who live in the period 1642 to 1693. Each story tells of a couple who love each other but who cannot be together and their ensuing struggles to keep their love.


The reader gets transported back to the time period in which the stories are written and gains great insights into the lifestyle and social norms of the period, plus get to meet the characters of each story and how they met, lived and challenges they faced to find love.


The stories include: The story of Seijuro in Himeji, The Barrelmaker Brimful of Love, What the seasons brought the Almanac maker, The Greengrocers daughter with a bundle of love and Gengobei, the mountain of love.

A very light, humorous and historical book that sheds light on the social conditions for love in the period.
       










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