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SEE BELOW for MORE MAGAZINES' Exclusive, detailed, guaranteed content description!* With all the great features of the day, this makes a great birthday gift, or anniversary present! Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED. TITLE: TIME magazine [The news-magazine of the century, with all the news, features, and vintage ADS! See FULL contents below!] ISSUE DATE: AUGUST 1, 1983; Vol. 122, No. 5 CONDITION: Standard sized magazine, Approx 8½" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo) IN THIS ISSUE: [Use 'Control F' to search this page. MORE MAGAZINES' exclusive detailed content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date.] This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 COVER: JAPAN: A nation in search of itself. Cover Photo by Ulf Skogsbergh; kimono by Nigel Holmes, Parsons-Meares Ltd. and Let There Be Neon. SPECIAL ISSUE: COMPUTERS: Coming up: machines that can give medical advice, translate languages, even understand the spoken word. EDUCATION: Demanding and ruthlessly competitive, the schools stress science, mathematics and rote learning. VIDEO: A TV network holds huge audiences with quality shows. w Among them: a star who broke tradition. THE COUNTRY: Enormously successful, Japan now confronts the problems of an advanced industrial society. At home, social change is sweeping aside traditions; abroad, the Japanese generate suspicion and ill-feeling. The present is booming and boisterous, but the future lies in shadow. ECONOMY & BUSINESS: The key to the country's commercial success abroad is not government policy but fierce competition at home. Demanding consumers insist on exceptional quality, low prices and innovative features. If firms can outpace local rivals, foreign competitors are often pushovers. CULTURE: It is a society of constraint, a system of forms, etiquette and images that makes the ever present sense of congestion tolerable. Artist and artisan seek to enlarge finite space: a dish of sushi, a bonsai tree or a rock garden is an exquisite miniature intended to expand in the mind's eye. MEDICINE: Despite impressive gains, the nation has not yet reached its goal: possessing a modern-mid health system. SEXES: The middle-class and urbanized Japanese'woman is trying to reconcile tradition with present-day realities. TRAVEL: Speeding by bullet into the heart of the country, where people live quietly in the company of roadside gods. LAW: A land without lawyers uses law like a ceremonial sword, sparingly. ' But the police box monitors everything. ART: Trained as a calligrapher, Toko Shinoda turned her hand to abstract painting. The result: a striking mix. BOOKS: Serious literature and adult comic books vie for the attention of the world's most voracious readership. DESIGN: Not just beauty, but the beauty of calm understatement; not just perfection but the perfection emphasized by a slight flaw. These traits give Japanese design its s/jibusa a mix of flair and simplicity, visible in what one designer calls "the just so of the swerve of a pagoda or the sword of a samurai." BEHAVIOR: Is Japan a sexually liberated society? Yes and no. Unlike the West, this Eastern nation has little sense of sexual sin; sex tends to be regarded as a simple human activity, like eating. But as the West has grown permissive, Japan has imposed restrictions. The result: a good deal of frustration. LIVING: Three of the world's best designers have started an international fashion revolution in Japan. Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto are invigorating traditional ideas of form and fabric by altering shapes, shifting lines and using classical styles in compellingly unconventional ways. ______ Use 'Control F' to search this page. * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED.