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Taking On The Machine.(civil engineering fiascos)(Statistical Data Included)
The road to Osaki village skirts Aso Bay beneath hills blanketed with lush forest. Like most of Japan's remote Tsushima Island, the area is breathtakingly beautiful--until the undulating shoreline yields to a hideous construction site directly below the fishing hamlet. Though this area is sparsely inhabited and hardly short of open space, the government is spending millions to carve new lands out of the sea. A concrete sea wall contains a reclamation area the size of five football fields, all backfilled to a level three meters above the high-tide line. Soon construction crews will start work on this new patch of real estate, building a day-care center and a gateball field ...
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- Magazine article from: Military Review Rathgeber, David G. September 1, 2003 700+ words
...economic needs between the United States and Japan, combined with racism on...Across the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Asia/ Pacific Region...relationship between the United States and Japan from 1895 to the present...
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- Magazine article from: Issues in Science and Technology Heaton, George R., Jr. June 22, 1997 700+ words
...D; if it adapts, the United States can benefit. Japan is at an historic watershed...connection between the United States and Japan is vital to each. More...marketplace just as the United States does. Japan may well no longer try...
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- Magazine article from: New England Economic Review Browne, Lynn Elaine May 1, 2001 700+ words
...resounding "No." The United States is not like Japan. Its economic fundamentals...view remains that the United States is not Japan, the denials have...economic wounds. I. Japan in the 1980s versus the United States in the 1990s The broad...
- Japan Outstrips United States As S. African Trade Partner
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Stuart Auerbach October 22, 1987 700+ words
Japan has replaced the United States as South Africa...acknowledged that Japan has moved ahead of the United States as South Africa...bigger business in the United States," said one such diplomat. Japan maintains no diplomatic...
- United States: United States-Japan Joint Statement toward a World without...
- News wire article from: TendersInfo November 15, 2009 700+ words
...Government of the United States and the Government of Japan plan to work actively...national security of Japan or the United States of America and its...Government of the United States and the Government of Japan call upon states that...
- JAPAN-UNITED STATES: POST-WAR PACT EXTENDED FOR SECURITY'S SAKE
- News wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire Suvendrini Kakuchi April 17, 1996 700+ words
...security pact between the United States and Japan on April 10 reflects persistent...post-Cold War era," the Japan-United States military alliance has to...Clinton said that with the United States and Japan having the world's "strongest...
- Japan's growing economic activities and the attainment patterns of foreign-born...
- Magazine article from: The International Migration Review Fang, Di July 1, 1996 700+ words
Japan's Growing Economic Activities and...Foreign-Born Japanese Workers in the United States, 1979 to 1989(1) This study examines...impact of the economic activities of Japan in the United States on the socioeconomic attainments of...
- The United States and Japan co-announce exhibition of treasures from the...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 7, 1986 700+ words
...spirit of cooperation between Japan and the United States that is represented by this exhibition...unique cooperative venture between Japan and the United States has been provided by: In Japan: In the United States: Idemitsu Kosan Co. Epson America...
