Vol.17
Forest of Thought
Zhu Xi Turned "Loving the People" into "Renewing the People"｜How Wang Yangming's Non-separation of Inner and Outer Breaks the Order of the Cheng-Zhu School
In the Three Principles of the Great Learning, Zhu Xi read "loving the people" as "renewing the people." It is a philosophy of order, in which one who has finished polishing himself renews the people. Wang Yangming broke that order, teaching that illuminating bright virtue is itself loving the people. Inner is outer, and outer is inner.
Kunitsukami Project
Autosomes Are Roots as a Surface, Mitochondrial DNA and the Y Chromosome Are Roots as a Line
Autosomes are a "surface" spanning every paternal and maternal line, but can be traced back only about 150 to 200 years. Mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome are "lines" whose information does not thin out however many generations pass. Yet of the 1,024 ancestors ten generations back, only two can be traced.
KINEMA 2400
The Studio System and the Five-Company Agreement｜How Six Major Studios Controlled Everything from Production to Exhibition
The six companies that ran postwar Japanese film, Shochiku, Toho, Daiei, Toei, Shintoho, and Nikkatsu, owned studios and held cinemas across the country in their chains. In 1960 they made 547 films. With the Five-Company Agreement of 1953, leaving a company became synonymous with vanishing from the film world.