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In the morning of May 21, Monday in Tokyo, from the balcony of my place, I saw beautiful solar eclipse. Of course I used sun glasses dedicated for this event. I did enjoy it. Once solar shading started, the whole view from the balcony got darker and the temperature got colder. After a few minutes, the sun became like golden ring from what I saw through the glasses. Thank you, God. It was in fact the most beautiful show I saw in my life.   This show was actually seen not only in Japan but other parts of the world, California and Northern Texas. The map and...

A story of an American economist named Eleanor M. Hadley who contributed to Japan's post-war democratization, especially in the field of redistribution of wealth of the nation. She visited Japan before the war between the two nations started. She was an exchange student and studied Japanese. During the war, she studied economics in Harvard. After the war she was hired by US Occupational...