By Gretel Ehrlich
A passionate scholar of eastern poetry, theater, and paintings for a lot of her existence, Gretel Ehrlich felt pressured to come to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to endure witness, hearken to survivors, and adventure their terror and excitement in villages and cities the place all defend and wish appeared misplaced. In an eloquent narrative that blends powerful reportage, poetic statement, and deeply felt mirrored image, she takes us into the upside-down international of northeastern Japan, the place not anything is sure and the place the limits among dwelling and death were erased by means of water.
The tales of rice farmers, priests, and wanderers; of fishermen who drove their boats up the steep wall of the wave; and of an eighty-four-year-old geisha who survived the tsunami handy down a track that in simple terms she nonetheless remembered are either harrowing and inspirational. dealing with dying, dealing with existence, and coming to phrases with impermanence are both compelling in a panorama of surreal desolation, because the ghostly specter of Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear energy advanced, spews radiation into the sea and air. Facing the Wave is a testomony to the buoyancy, spirit, humor, and strong-mindedness of these who needs to locate their manner in a unexpectedly shattered global.
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15. Comparison of age distribution with some European labour-importing countries is helpful in identifying the characteristic attributes of registered foreigners in Japan. 9 shows the percentage share of selected age groups of the foreigners registered in Japan and the foreign population in the main European labour-importing countries. 16 One can classify the countries into two different groups: those with a relatively younger foreign population and those with an older one. Germany and the Netherlands fall into the first group and the rest of the countries constitute the second one.
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Izanagi' and 'HeiseP Booms - Two Tight Labour Market Periods When considering the structural labour market changes in recent decades, it is opportune to begin the discussion with an overview of the long-term labour balance. 2 illustrates the trends of two employment indicators: the active opening-to-application ratio and the unemployment rate. op. 5- 0 1 I I ! | ! i I I j I I I ! | I I ! I ] I I 50 55 60 65 70 I 1 | 75 I I I I | 80 I I I I | I I ! 2 Trends of Employment Indicators Source: The Statistics Bureau, the Management and Co-ordination Agency, Labour Force Survey; the Ministry of Labour, Annual Report on Labour Market.