Japanese identity

This fear of color and racial contamination and elision is taken to its extreme in You Only Live Twice, where Bond literally changes his skin color and goes undercover as a Japanese man (Twice 84-85). Once he has vanquished Blofeld, however, a lurking fear of contamination, of (in the words of the later song) Turning Japanese, is realized Bond suffers amnesia, and his lover Kissy Suzuki reinforces his Japanese identity (ibid 205-213), effectively switching his race for several months. 

Figure 18.1 A crystal is built up from many billions of small identical units, or unit cells. These unit cells are packed against each other in three dimensions much as identical boxes are packed and stored in a warehouse. The unit cell may contain one or more than one molecule. Although the number of molecules per unit cell is always the same for all the unit cells of a single crystal, it may vary between different crystal forms of the same protein. The diagram shows in two dimensions several identical unit cells, each containing two objects packed against each other. The two objects within each unit cell are related by twofold symmetry to illustrate that each unit cell in a protein cr) stal can contain several molecules that are related by symmetry to each other. (The pattern is adapted from a Japanese stencil of unknown origin from the nineteenth century.)...

Finally, to avoid the parallel use of similar but not identical method validation studies to fulfil the registration requirements, e.g., of the EU, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or Japanese authorities, an adaptation of different data requirements for residue analytical methods for post-registration control and monitoring purposes would help to save resources. 

We also conduct comparison surveys with a nationally representative sample of 1,000 members of the total adult public. The most recent general public survey was October 22-25 —that is, about 3 weeks after news coverage of an accident at a Japanese fuel plant. In the interest of time, I will give you only the most recent numbers, but I can tell you that the data before and after the accident are practically identical. 

Three Japanese patients with Crigler-Naj-jar syndrome type I carry an identical nonsense mutation in the gene for UDP-glucuronosyltransferase. Jpn J Hum Genet 1995 40 253-257. 

Profiles in the Japanese Sea are similar for model and observational data. Concentration decreases down to 1000 m and remains constant below. Surface concentrations are lower for modeled profiles, most likely due to the emission scenario, that assumes identical temporal behaviour for all source points and does not capture all emitted mass. Due to the limited horizontal resolution of models, the topography of the ocean differs from the real one. In the Southern ocean concentrations were low throughout all depths, and for the measurements often below the detection limit of 6 pg/L. 

A Japanese product like P.V.50, the pigment is registered in the Color Index as P.V.44. The two pigments are extremely similar, both coloristically and in terms of performance in application, even in detail. It is very likely that the products are chemically identical and listed twice in the Colour Index, although exhibiting different CAS numbers. 

The role of the CRC is identical to that of European or American counterparts, or may be of more complex nature because of the complicated Japanese GCP and medical system. Many professional bodies, some backed up by regulatory body and academia, provide training courses for CRCs and recent statistics showed the number of trainee has exceeded 5000 and activities of... 

Change of imperial masters at a critical juncture (Spanish to American in the Philippines, 1898 Japanese to European in the rest of Southeast Asia, 1945) made possible the revolutionary assertion of the new antiimperial identity in the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and Burma. As in France in 1789, the revolutions sacralised the new identities which had been charted on the map by the old empires. To greater or lesser extent, the alchemy was effected through revolution, making the multiethnic imperial identity transform into a passionately felt new community. This provided a huge impetus for the new states in building on the heroic myths of revolution for their state nationalisms. 

Later, almost identical results were claimed in a Japanese patent by Mitsubishi Metal KK [125]. 

From the Japanese bryozoan Bugula dentata, an antimicrobial blue pigment (121) was isolated (111) and found to be identical with a tetrapyr-role previously isolated from a mutant strain of Serratia marcescens (112). The color of the bryozoan B. dentata is unusually dark blue, suggesting that the pigment 121 is ubiquitously present in the animal. Whether compound 121 is biosynthesized by the bryozoan itself or by an associated microorganism or derived from food sources such as prodigiosin-producing bacteria is still unknown. 

Japanese scientists are also experimenting with these so-called skin-identical lipids to enhance efficacy. 

Fig. 3.1 Classification of functional roles of subunit assembly and disassembly.4 a) The assembly of identical subunits is essential for the 9catalytic activity, b) The assembly of nonidentical subunits is essential for the catalytic activity, c) The assembly of active subunits enhances the catalytic activity, d) Sequential metabolic reactions are efficiently catalyzed by the assembly of subunits, e) The assembly of subunits is required for the expression of regulatory properties, f) The assembly of nonidentical subunits diminishes the catalytic activity. See text for details. (Reproduced with permission from S. Tokushige, Kagaku Zokan, 103, 41 (1984), in Japanese)).

The mistake emerged when some Japanese chemists made this compound by an unambiguous route. The NMR spectrum was quite like that of canadensolide, but not the same. In particular, the coupling between the green and brown Hs was 1.5 Hz—quite different So they also made the other possible diastereoisomer and found that it was identical to natural canadensolide. The details are in the margin. 

To this day, his actual identity remains a mystery. The story goes that one day Fulcanelli handed his disciple, Eugene Canseliet, the manuscript of The Mystery oj the Cathedrals, asked him to publish it, and promptly disappeared. In his introduction, Canseliet writes that Fulcanelli is no more , which could either mean his master was dead, or had assumed a new identity. (If this were the case, it recalls the ancient Japanese practice that dictated that once one had achieved mastery in one discipline, one should abandon it, and go off to learn something new in a new town, studying under a new name.)... 

The highly toxic guanidinium alkaloid tetrodotoxin was first isolated from the Japanese puffer fish, Fuga rubipes. In the early 1960s, a guanidinium alkaloid was isolated from eggs of the California newt Taricha torosa and named tarichatoxin (185). It proved identical with tetrodotoxin from puffer fish (186 see Ref. 5 for a historical review). Tetrodotoxin and other guanidinium toxins, namely, chiriquitoxin and the zetekitoxins, have been shown to occur in other amphibians. 

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