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...Republic went to Japan in the early 1980s - but they weren't supposed to stay. China, under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, had begun renewing contact with the outside world. Thousands of China's brightest scholars were dispatched to the U.S., Germany and Japan to vacuum up the latest scientific knowledge and take new ideas back home to advance the socialist cause. But the world outside proved too alluring for many students. Chen Jianjun, who arrived in the Japanese city of Kobe on a Chinese government scholarship in 1982, recalls how alien Japan's orderly society felt...
...Such newfound national pride is shared by many of the Chinese university students now flocking to Japan. While Tiananmen-generation scholars went as penniless scholarship recipients, the latest arrivals were raised in Chinese cities whose skyscrapers and Internet cafés aren't so different from Tokyo's. They are not looking for political or economic refuge. Le Yiping is a polished 25-year-old studying transportation and logistics at the University of Tokyo, one of Japan's premier colleges. "I plan to go back to China after graduation because the business opportunities there are very good," she says - though...
...Rock Band is the latest, hottest and most ambitious entry in the genre of music-based video games, and retailers can't keep it on the shelves, even at $170 a pop. "We can't make 'em fast enough at this point," says Alex Rigopulos, CEO of Harmonix, which developed Rock Band as well as two Guitar Hero games. It would be easy to dismiss Rock Band as a fad or just a game, but there's something more to it. Besides being insanely fun, music-based games like Rock Band may actually be important. Consider these five reasons while...
...election was, after all, just the latest stage of a process by which Russia's President, who is due to leave office next year (though he has suggested that he will continue to be a "national leader" of some sort), has consolidated power. The West could have seen it coming at any time from 2001, when Putin began a state takeover of the national television news, to more recently, when he tightened rules about how parties can win seats in parliament. But whatever implausible returns there were--like the 99% turnout with a 99% vote for Putin's party...
...year-old was taken into custody overnight by the Hampshire Constabulary in southern England. His arrest is the latest twist in the mysterious reappearance of a man who was presumed drowned in the North Sea in March, 2002. A frenzied search for Darwin - which included a helicopter and nearly a dozen ships and canvassed 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km) of sea - yielded no traces of the former prison official. When his shattered red kayak washed ashore without its captain, it seemed, surely, to spell Darwin's untimely demise...