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Our Lives / Profiles Aug 4, 2012

Atomic bomb survivor credits desire to learn for living 'four lives'

by Kris Kosaka

Yuuki Yoshida, 80, divides his lifetime into four different "lives," but he has lived each of them by following one maxim: "Try to learn as if you were to live forever, and live as if you were to die tomorrow." As a survivor of the ...

Our Lives / Profiles Jul 31, 2012

Kindergartners get language boost with English immersion program

by Mami Maruko

An American English teacher tells a class of 5-year-old Japanese children, each with a whiteboard and pen in hand: "Let's write down the sentence, 'I am hot.' " "Chris, put a space between 'am' and 'hot'," the teacher tells a boy, who follows the teacher's ...