<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div><span>Well,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17233"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17232">In Germany, the thinking has always been that the graduates of humanities institutions make better doctors and assets to companies like Siemens.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17231"><span>Cheers,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17231"><span>SAT</span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17174"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17125">Sybil Thornton, MA, PhD (Cantab)
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Arizona State University
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Fax: 480-965-0310</div><br> <div style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17282"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17281"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17280"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17311"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17312"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Christian Morimoto Hermansen <christian_hermansen@hotmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@lists.osu.edu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 31, 2015 8:19 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [KineJapan] abolition of humanities and social sciences at National Universities in Japan<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17313"><br><div id="yiv8543443529"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17315"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17314">I truely hope those seeing it as a great opportunity will stick to that interpretation. I am concerned, for time and again, the private ones also jump when the Ministry says Jump, e.g. make campuses in the country side, then ten years later, move into the city.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Christian M. Hermansen</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv8543443529yqt1073607339" id="yiv8543443529yqt67130"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441044862885_17316"><br clear="none">On 2015/09/01, at 0:13, Akira Mizuta Lippit <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:lippit@usc.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:lippit@usc.edu">lippit@usc.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div>I met the chancellor of Josai University today and she said the privates "see this as a great opportunity." </div>
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