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People | CLOSE-UP Jun 3, 2007

Thinking beyond the brain

by Eric Prideaux

Kenichiro Mogi would be the ideal person to find sitting next to you at a dinner party, or one bleary post-sake morning over breakfast in a Japanese mountain inn. As a celebrity neuroscientist with a doctorate in physics from the University of Tokyo, and with ...

People | CLOSE-UP May 6, 2007

Karel Van Wolferen: Insights into the new world disorder

by David Mcneill

When Karel Van Wolferen released his seminal book "The Enigma of Japanese Power" in the dying months of the bubble economy, the normally staid monthly magazine Chuo Koron described its impact as akin to being struck by a bolt of lightning. For once, the ...