From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
Subject: Re: Japan's Contribution Through Science and Technology [Keynote, ISADS]
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 93 21:52:10 CET


In <9304221706.AA29208@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, on Apr 22, you wrote:

> From: rick@cs.arizona.edu (Rick Schlichting)
> Subject: Japan's Contribution Through Science and Technology [Keynote, ISADS]
> Date: 22 Apr 93 15:47:55 GMT
> 
> 
> Abstract
> 
>         As a technological superpower committed to peace, Japan should
> play a more positive role for the good of humanity.  Japan's postwar
> experience of successfully converting military industry to civilian
> production and thus gaining international competitiveness for example,
> will help nations facing large-scale arms reduction.  Japan's success
> of developing clean automotive engines that drastically reduced air
> pollution and established international competitiveness of Japanese
> cars, will encourage nations tackling global environmental issues.


Aren't the Japanese who go on killing the whales to eat them? Even if the
whales are disappearing from the oceans?

Automotive engines = money
Not killing whales = loosing money

There's something strange in that abstract for me.

Diego

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