| Sept. 19, 2001 |
It Might Have Been a
Perfect Day
"It started as a perfect day," says Yunshi Wang, RECS consultant
and U.S. citizen / first-generation Chinese-American himself, reports his
horror and dismay following the phone call from his friend in
the morning of Tuesday, September 11 -- the day chiseled forever in the
history and the conscious of humankind.
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| Sept. 29, 2000 |
Memoirs of
Exchange with Architects on the Other Side of the Earth
Architectural City Workshop Brazil 2000 -- Vernacular Transformation, subsidized by Japan Foundation, was held for a week from
September 14 through 20 in Brazil. Having
participated in the workshop that moved from Sao Paulo to Brasilia through 5 cities, Masayuki Takazawa tells
of how it went and what he gained from it.
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| Sept. 26, 2000 |
Mozambique Journal:
Silent People
After the festive three-day weekend of Independence Day, Masato
Onozawa notices some peculiarity about the local people as he joined a
long line at a bank in Tete city of central Mozambique.
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| Sept. 24, 2000 |
Mozambique Journal: What
Is It to Be a Development Consultant?
RECS International Inc. won a JICA-sponsored development project
for the Angonia Region of Mozambique, Africa, for the first time as the prime firm of a joint
venture. This is the first of a report series by Masato Onozawa, who has
been dispatched to the study site on his first fieldwork assignment!
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| July, 2000 |
A Story of Equatorial Hailstorms
Takashi Kimijima, the practitioner of a farmer-consultant living, encounters
hailstorms in Uganda, a small African country on the equator. What
will this unanticipated weather bring to the area?
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| June, 2000 |
Vietnam Report
Masato Onozawa visits Vietnam on a JICA's study (for a power sector's
engineers training project). Vietnam is a
country, for which he has always had strong feelings since he was a child.
What awaits in Hanoi as he steps in there expectantly?
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| Mar. 23, 2000 |
The Beauty of a City Brought on by
Legacies
of Perishing Past Glory
Having visited Turkey on a JICA
dispatch for inspection/project formulation, Masayuki Takazawa
has some things to say about his experience and side-glance
observation of Istanbul.
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| Dec., 1999 |
Ankara News: Ramadan
Masato Onozawa in Trabzon, Turkey on a JICA project, shares his
observation on Ramadan as he experiences it.
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| Oct. 11, 1999 |
Ankara News: Everything is Go at the
Project Front!
The first of report series by Masato
Onozawa, who has reached his destination, the eastern Black Sea
region of Turkey. This is his third visit to Turkey on a JICA project
study. |
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