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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Many thanks, Maria, for this, which can be carried to
other discussions about how adept, or not, people are at detaching fictions from
fact. And I read 'cool' in "A reporter of a local newspaper in Kochi told
me that people there are showing a cool reaction to the NHK drama on grounds
that it jars with historical facts.", as 'cool' in its earlier twentieth century
meaning of unfavourable/underwhelmed, not as it is used at the top of the page
in 'Cool Japan' !</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=tkarsavina@yahoo.com href="mailto:tkarsavina@yahoo.com">Maria Jose
Gonzalez</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 09, 2010 9:44
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Taiga pour nos jours</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>I had been wondering about NHK's policy myself when a few
weeks ago I read a very interesting article where Masaaki Noda comments
on NHS's exploitation of Ryoma:
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href="http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201011280124.html">http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201011280124.html</A><BR><BR>---
On <B>Thu, 9/12/10, Roger Macy <I><<A
href="mailto:macyroger@yahoo.co.uk">macyroger@yahoo.co.uk</A>></I></B>
wrote:<BR>
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Roger Macy <<A
href="mailto:macyroger@yahoo.co.uk">macyroger@yahoo.co.uk</A>><BR>Subject:
Taiga pour nos jours<BR>To: "KineJapan"
<KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu><BR>Date: Thursday, 9
December, 2010, 5:29 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>A short piece in this week's 'Economist' links
NHK's Taiga to the current political scene.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><A href="http://www.economist.com/node/17633329"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://www.economist.com/node/17633329</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT
face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>