Va恥ouverSansei has "grad鹏te stud柳nightmare" as PhD他esis theft
VANCOUVER — Til e "graduate; s:1^1ident,s night-ituire, Msjuぉhkppened to Ro)^ Miki.
With less than eight weeks to go beforethもfinalsubmission 如adline,Miki，s他-:きmpleted PhD UteSis and 參ost of therもsearch notes ihat go witfi it wierおstolen fromhぉKome.
Miki has^Vorked for four
years on thethesisj which is due Sept,1at the Uilivesity of British Columbia. "IcanH g IIless about the amount of time it \Vould take to re-co"struかthe thesis," he
"Alot of itwaswrUtぉn eai,ly on in my studies and is hard to remember. It，s ex^Uy the graduate student's nightmare."，
Mild said he has been em"
ployed as anEnglish instructor at Simon Fr卿r University for two yejars, and was hired on the condition that he earn his PhD.
The thesis was in a fancy Ieatherbiiefcase his wife hadぉven him. "I have a fもeling the cきse was aWg p?irt oif the reason it was ぉol en :::ノ：:.:ぶ^
The thesおdeals with the
earlJ^ writings of the influ-entialU:S. poet and fiction w r iter, W illkm Carh)sWiレ iiams.
Miki said he went downstairs to help a carpeゅr installsoinewin"ws in the basement of hぉhome at 2卯5 West15th.
A ?i必hourlater hisA^if© 化ft the ho Inや,and an hour after that Mi id returned to
hぉ1ivingroひm to打nd the briefcase and ito contents m诉sing.
Police were called, but a 財iirxh of the nciighbout歸 hood failed t<^ turn up th" thesis.
Anyone who knows the 、yhereabo\its of the th<ste cart contactぉiki你roii妙 tl化SFU English department at2913136*
Vol.43 — No.
Friday, Augusft17,1979
TOROJ^TO, ONTARIO
By BILL HOSOKAWA
In the year1543, a small Chinese c鸣o ship called at TanegashUpa, a tiny island 20 miles oft the south coast of Kyushu, Japan's sout旨n most island. Aboard were three Portuguese, the firstEuropゅilstひ set eyes on Japaiiand also the dVvners of two harquebuses (a primitive type of gun fired by matchlocks) and ammunition-Lord ToWtaka saw one of the Portuguese shoot a du(?kwith the gun and immediately became fascinated by it.
(One of the Portugueseお recorded in Jap印ese history as KirLshitainot:o如d is believed to have been Christopher da Mota)
Lord Tokitaka eventually bought the giuns for; whatやas then a fanta!Stically high prise, then turned them over to hfs swordsmith ydth orcjers to make CO pies,Within adecade^un-smiths allover Japan were turninj) outlifarquebリses and quicklダadding improvements that niade tぉem mo re efficient weapons than any in use in Eiiropさ.
This sto?y is told in a slim andteadable new bo6k， "Giving Up the Gun," by No elおerr in (DavほR. Go dine, PubHsher, J5ケiD5). PerHn Is a professQi* of English at Dartmouth College. He undertook the research (withtJie help of several I Japa-nesescho!きi"s) and wrotethき book during a year as a Gug-genh(F6undation fellOw*
The tはleicomes from Perjfiii,s finding that the Japanese, after becoming very adept at the nianufactui*e and use of firearms, voluntarily gave Uiem up and went back to fighting with
swords, spears and bow and まows. By the tJmeCommodore Matthew Ca，braはh Perry showed up in Japan 、vith his warships in1853， firearms were virtually unknown.
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What caused the Japanese to reject the guns? Perrin suggests there were a number of
reasons, but perhaps the m6st persuasive is the fiticking that war with weapons in the hands of cormiion people who could kill armored samurai at a distance simply wasn,t muゅ fun. War in Japan of this period essentially was a pollさct ion of
pet^sonalhand-to-hand bきttles, with eachtncetinfif precededIby elaborate ritual,and conibat
was a test ofskiils. Any clod could point and fire a gurt; it required a samurai with great skillandtfaining to fight with asvvord. And so the Japanese wairiors graduaUy r e j e c te d teehnplogy and went back to t radはUma1armaments.
Perrin cites this historical pi'iBcedent in askingヽvhether the world todaj^wouldb"ble to put asifie plutonium. The Japanese expeirience, he says, proves "that h咖an beings are Ieぉthe p ass We vぉtims of their own knowledgeさndskiHs thぎn^ost men in the West suppose." Progress, whateverれis,
ぉn，t an ex or able force beyond liumさn c(jntrol, b\it it is Some-thing、vec3n giuide, direct;, Qr eyenstop and forget.
Equallケinterもstingare some of Perrin，s 0ぉservatipnsan^ j[尊tidjngs about medievalJapan, whiclimo St persons believed to be ibackward in comparison to
Euro pe. pur in g tiie "th Ceri. tury, Perrin says， Japan wks a prosperous?iatiortiv!th 25 miレ Hon people compared to16 mi!H9n in Fr"nce, 7 m!lHon in
Spai ri, 41/4 milh'Qn in Englan-arid maybeさmilHon Jri What to become tlie Unite<j !^tates. Japan in15415 was fcelieved to haye had a W g herlitもracy rate
irate t^an any Euro pea?vcountry, interest in the arts rart Wgh, and
European vis':tors were looked down upon because they ate 、vれh their fingers rather than 、vith chopsticks. Early visitors
also were surprised to see the Japanese used soft paper with which to blow thdr noses; most
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Tor,Sctnsei
racmgworm
TORONTO. — Great gol)s ofworms, Nats the winner! And Georg， Yamamoto, 8, is alla-wiggle!
Aslippery thoroughbred nanled Nat showedlightning speed recently—nearly "entimetre per second—as he slithered to the champ ion-e;hip of the Great Rich view Library Worm Race.
Nat， a medium-sizedもarth-、voi，m measuring aBodt18 《'eidimeters (seven inches) at fullstretch, easily out-crawled allop position in a s:coi,ching time of 38 seeondさ ovei;a 30-centimetre (one foot) track.
Nれwas traineiJ and i'aced ゎyりeorge Yamamoto, who I night have been disquali. fied if the suburban Etobト cokelibrarians who org， ized theeVentli:ad insisted on a mateur status.
Na"vas trained ;aiidi^aced ivhci vyould probably be vi-c(ous if he had teeth. When examined afferthie r狄e he atlmpted to strangleかre-poi.teピs finger, fle was selected from t?iousands Of creepy crawlers at a fish-bait、vorni farm operated by George，s father.
George，s first prize was a fcookcaUed "Jlow to Find Wormがalthough George {ilrea^ kne、v the answe" "At my father s fartti."
Lribraiian Kalene Guyader explained that the contest was organized as "jlist a summer fun event" in con-)i，nction 、Wth bookworm fummer， which is to encourage children to read more.
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CALGARY. — Japanお ready to offer a new deal in investment and trade poレ iciies to Canada and any other interested country, sayさTo si I i wo Doko， chairman of the Japanese Ch am-)?er of Commerce.
Shooei Nalcayaina， a bankもr， forecast that Japanese banks沐illestab，ish Canj^dian operations as soon as the new Bank Act is passed, expeeted later this year.
Doko and Nakまyama were parぃof a Japanese delegation of bankers, industrialists and economists whicjltoured Albe?^ta，さoil sandsaiid heavy oilfields
Nakayama said the two Jjll)anese-sponsoreぇoil sands research programs, involving Petro; Canada and N(rt^c;eri E nもrgy Re sources lit4., are p財t of futuぉ pia I IS to increase iiiyestinent
N〖sei appointed GulfCanafld
TOROlsnrO. — Gulf Can-せ(ta Liniitもd atin()uncedre-c(?ntly that ]Vir. TatsMaisu-ゅit a has beenapーnted Vice President of Planning. The announc€intent follows the recent formation of Gullf Canada Products Company's "downstream" divi, sion responsible for refining, marketing, chemicals and supply and distribution.
Mr. Mat shush ita was most recently GeneralManager of the company's Supply and Distribution Department,
in Canada，s alternative energy prospects. ,Doko said the restructuring of Japanese industry and revamping ofゅe country's trade practices, vie，d as discriminatory by so me countries, wiU bもconducted soon.
"We don,t have theluxury of time," Doko said.
He called on Canada and other (Countries tひリnder' stand the efきects of Japanese desire to create fr鄉 \Vorld trade and a more favorable trade balance.
Doko said Japan willincrease hnpoft^ of manufac' tured goods and willeHmin-ate， wherever PI "act ical,domestic hianufacture ojfen-ergy-intensiye dnd tもchnie-logically cひmplii;ated pro* duets.
Hp sa笨dtherewHlbe 4 new ph3ぉinJapanese trade practices followinglast month's Tokyo sumihit meet 二 ing of the seven major industrialized nati6ns，
The conference fa J ted1^ rおIIIもin frei?r globaltrade but itsetimpoれantgoals for energy iionservation. Japan, thelT.S, and Canada agreed to redjuce oH imports sjiibstantially by19S5.
The Japanese bitsine举men said Japan, which now imports 70 per cent o"llits energy, 、v川cut dependency on imports to60 per cent by
During the same period, 《dependence on oilimports 、viH be reducd by a similar «iai'gin to about 50 per cent. Japan wants to buy Can* adian thermalcoalto power generajting plants now fired by oil.