Gakushuin University

...wasn't it?" Despite her frustrations at school, she persevered and became the first woman ever accepted into the philosophy program at Gakushuin University. Perhaps the feelings of intellectual constraint finally got to her; after only two...

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...Political Funds Control Law during an ordinary Diet session next year, the sources said. According to the sources, Ozawa on Friday asked Gakushuin University Professor Takeshi Sasaki to draw up specific reform plans for three issues:...

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...arts - in Tokyo. Castle Tintagel, as it's called, is located in the leafy residential district of Mejiro - just up the road from Gakushuin University, where members of the Imperial family are educated. Presumably the local branch of the...

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...closer ties with its Asian neighbours. "It will be the start of a new era," Hidekazu Kawai, political science professor emeritus of Gakushuin University, told AFP. "But that is not to say the public is euphoric. Voters are very cool...

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...Party (LDP) on August 30. "It will be the start of a new era,'' said Hidekazu Kawai, political science professor emeritus of Gakushuin University. "But that is not to say the public is euphoric. Voters are very cool and keenly...

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...Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on August 30. "It will be the start of a new era," Hidekazu Kawai, political science professor emeritus of Gakushuin University, told AFP. Hatoyama, a US-trained engineering scholar and scion of a political...

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...for change resulted in a snowball effect, a dangerously momentous snowball effect," said Hidekazu Kawai, an honorary professor at Gakushuin University. Now the DPJ led by Yukio Hatoyama, likely the next prime minister, will face intense...

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...to turn out." The landmark win "is just the beginning of a bumpy road ahead for the DPJ", said Hiroshi Hirano, politics professor at Gakushuin University, pointing to Japan's economic woes, with unemployment at a post-war high of 5.7 per...

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...wife's father was the late Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki, and his sister married into the royal family. After graduating from Tokyo's Gakushuin University in 1963, he studied at Stanford University and the London School of Economics. He was...

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...extensive industrial interests in southern Japan that have been criticised for using Allied POWs in its coal mines. After graduating from Gakushuin University, he studied at Stanford University and then the London School of Economics before...

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