How-tos | GETTING THINGS DONE Jun 7, 2000

A beginning

by Jean Pearce

A recent column question dealt with a problem that faces many parents today: Their children have completely lost interest in school. These are often bright, motivated students who are dissatisfied with the system. Foreigners tend to feel that Japanese kids are too occupied, that ...

How-tos | GETTING THINGS DONE Jun 4, 2000

Songs to be sung

by Jean Pearce

Some of the world's most beautiful poems were sung in Japan well before the introduction of writing to record them. The writing came from China some 1,200 years ago, the songs are an even older oral tradition that was not recorded in words and ...