Re: [tlug] OT: interesting NY times article:High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

CL writes:
 > Josh Glover wrote:
 > > 2008/5/19 CL <az.4tlug@example.com>:
 > > 
 > >> At that time, my employer hired its engineers almost exclusively from the
 > >> original Satsuma and Choshu engineering schools -- in Kagoshima and
 > >> Yamaguchi.
 > > 
 > > Founded, I trust, by Okubo Toshimichi and Yoshida Shouin, respectively? ;)
 > 
 > So they claim(ed).  Both became Imperial universities and then regular 
 > ones after the Years of Unpleasantness.

I have to agree; the 1990s were not a pleasant time for Imperial
universities.<wink> But becoming regular universities isn't gonna
solve their problems.