“What we would like,” said Obuchi Yasuo, the former mayor of a farm town in northeastern Japan, “is for young people and their employers in Tokyo to consider lifestyle alternatives never possible before. Male and female employees could maintain a spacious residence here in the countryside while commuting to work in the city.” Gazing out across the terraced rice paddies visible through the huge ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to trace the foundations of DD Palmer's sense of self and philosophy of chiropractic to its sources in modern Western philosophy as well as current metatheories about modernity. DISCUSSION DD Palmer's sense of self was indicative of a modern self. A modern self is characterized as a self that developed after the Western Enlightenment and must come to t...

investigation on modern history of urban planning in iran shows that there are three approaches in the subject under discussion: “modernism and westernism”, “traditionalism and anti-westernism”, and “adopt and adapt”. proponents of the first approach believe in encouraging methods to use the external concepts. the second, is the idea about ​​cultural and religious values, ​​thereby everything w...

Scholars of Chinese literature note that China’s tumultuous literary history in the 20th century centered around the uncomfortable tensions between tradition and modernity. In this corpus study, we develop and automatically extract three features to show that the classical character of Chinese poetry decreased across the century. We also find that Taiwan poets constitute a surprising exception ...

BATEK, BATOK, AND WHATOK are various local words that denote a traditional tattooing practice among the peoples in the Cordillera Region, particularly in the province of Kalinga. Their bodies are inked with figurative designs of snake, centipede, frog, rice grain, and fern plant, among others, and interspersed with geometric motifs and patterns. These traditional tattoos speak strongly about th...

Individual liaison: Gregorius Sidharta, tradition, and modernityUnderstanding the dialogic relation between tradition modernity in our current cultural dynamic remains an ‘incomplete project’ that requires careful examination. Approaching thoroughly interpreting both roles society, mainly how they influenced paradigm of culture, continue to pose risks challenges. This article will explore works...