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...Japanese now live in Shanghai alone. The flood the other way is even more impressive: at half a million strong, Chinese legal immigrants now make up the largest group of recently arrived foreigners in Japan - and, no, they're not just stirring woks or taking the graveyard shift at convenience stores. More than 80,000 Chinese students are studying at Japanese universities, two-thirds of Japan's total foreign college-student population. Upon graduation, they are entering the Japanese workforce, crowding lucrative fields such as IT and biotech. Sheer numbers work in China's favor; each year Japan graduates...
...year-old theatergoer, and I don't think kids are looking to Sweeney Todd for Saw IV thrills. Besides, the R rating precludes the Disney audience. And have you checked out Broadway lately? I believe the "fogey" audience has become accustomed to situations that are more violent than the graveyard scene in The Sound of Music. The true problem with the upcoming version of Sweeney Todd is whether the principal players can do vocal justice to Stephen Sondheim's powerful score...
...Graveyard-Shift Hazards...
...replete with contrasts, its busts of Roman emperors and pennant-bearing lancers on horseback an odd sight alongside the many dignitaries of the Communist Party, which has ruled the state for the last 30 years - a fact that some joke is further evidence of Calcutta's status as a graveyard of the relics of the past...
Gaiman's next book doesn't sound as if it will compromise his geek principles any. "It's kind of like The Jungle Book, only instead of a jungle it's a graveyard," he explains. "It's about this 2-year-old whose family is killed, and who is adopted and brought up by dead people and taught all the things that dead people know." And they all die happily ever after...