“Do not look at what is against the rules, do not listen to what is against them, do not say what is against them” – Confucius (孔子 Kung Tzu), “Conversations and Judgments” (論語 Lun Yu). In many countries of the world, today it is customary to give friends and relatives as a sign of a […]

Ilya Shpurov22.05.2022

The search for new ways of economic development through the interpretation and properties of the continuum of social ties. The author’s conviction that it is always productive to look for new possible points of view on subjects that seem to us the most familiar and ordinary, was the reason for writing this article. The search […]

Yuri Chekalin28.01.2022

Staffers have accused the top director of the World Health Organization in the Western Pacific of racist, unethical and abusive behavior that has undermined the U.N. health agency’s efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic. The allegations were laid out in an internal complaint filed in October and in an email last week sent by unidentified […]

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Tokyo-based VLP Therapeutics Japan announced on October 18 that it plans to begin the final phase of clinical trials in the spring of 2022 and reach mainstream use by the end. The principle of the new vaccine is to use a new replicon technology [a replicon is a piece of DNA capable of autonomous double […]

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Japan is a miraculous country. Centuries-old traditions, rich history, unique culture, amazing unity of the nation and prominent technological development — all this is mixed in the overall image of the country. Many people are trying to answer the question: what is the essence of the Japanese miracle? The base for effective interaction in any […]

David K. Shipler08.05.2020

Tired of wishes, Empty of dreams — Carl Sandburg The man who washes cars does not own one. The clerk who files cancelled checks at the bank has $2.02 in her own account. The woman who copy-edits medical textbooks has not been to a dentist in a decade. This is the forgotten America. At the […]

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Those who look at the Parthenon, that incomparable symbol of the achievements of an ancient civilization, often do not see its wider setting. Behind the Acropolis, the bare dry mountains of Attica show their rocky bones against the blue Mediterranean sky, and the ruin of the finest temple built by the ancient Greeks is surrounded […]

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Among other things, the case of Gen. Michael Flynn reminds us of the old adage that things are always worse than you think. Right from the beginning of the attempted coup some of us took to calling ‘the Russian Collusion Delusion’, it was clear that the hounding of President Trump and various aides and supporters […]

Yuri Chekalin02.05.2020

Shinto is undeniably a religion unique to the Japanese people. It is a natural religion born and nurtured in the Japanese islands, unlike Buddhism or Christianity, which are world religions that have come to Japan from foreign countries. Certainly we cannot deny the influences on Shinto from Buddhism, Confucianism, or Chinese culture. Their influences on […]

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The desire for success in relations with Japanese companies requires knowledge of some of the unique customs of this surprising country. It’s sometimes difficult for an assertive foreign businessman to understand the logic of the events taking place with him/her in the Land of the Rising Sun, especially during a trip that he/she sincerely considered […]

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