2009 winter Edition Contents

Feature

Girls Love to Wear Imitation School Uniforms - World Over

   Japanese high school girls are seen on weekends and holidays wearing clothes which look like school uniforms but are in fact personal clothes designed like uniforms.
  Behind the booming imitation uniforms, there is a trend in the society grown tolerant of alterations of authentic school uniforms, previously considered
as an act of juvenile delinquency, and of imitation uniforms, a sort of costume play privately enjoyed among “otaku (nerd)” .

Heisei “Masked Rider” Woos Kids, Moms and Men

  ・Complex Viewers in Post-Modern Era
  ・Hybrid Fiction for Multiple Targets
  ・Some Like Good Old Stories
  ・New Rider Still Beats Monsters

The Japanese Emperor's Role as an Absolutely Public Existence

  Yoshinori Kobayashi A comic writer and a philosopher born in 1953.
   Debuted in 1976 with the comic "Todai Icchokusen".
   Has many hits such as “Obocchama kun” and“Gomanizm sengen”

Marchers Perform Music Instead of Snake Dance

   ・Sound Demos with Lots of Music
   ・Active Communities Support Demos
   ・One-Phrase Message
   ・No Confrontation with Power

College Students’Depression Has Impact on Students As Well As Doctors

   ・Psychiatrists Are Confused by College Students
   ・The New Depression Makes Diagnosis More Complicated
   ・Health Center Is the Nearest Place of Help
   ・Need to Take New Steps for “Global 30”

Student Organization Holds Event in Nippon Budokan

   ・An Event of the Students, by the Students, for the Students
   ・Waseda Was How It All Started
   ・Keeping Ambition Is the Hardest
   ・His Challenge Has Just Begun

Waseda University Offers Students Ways to Meet Literature

   ・Chieko Kawahara is a graduate of Waseda University, and won Shousetsu Subaru Shinjin shou
   ・Ryo Asai is a student of Waseda University, and won Shousetsu Subaru Shinjin shou