Learning lessons from Europe, Japan has to switch its economic-oriented policyto a consumer-conscious one, in order to cope with the coming unprecedentedaging society towards the 21st century.
My Latin teacher used to look down sternly on me over the rim of her glasses,but now I know it only had to do with the fact that she was wearing readingglasses and that she will have found it a nuisance taking them off all thetime, so what looked like contempt towards us students might well and trulyhave been kindness.