Tomonori Saiki, who heads research on movies at the agency, says that Japan has only belatedly come to appreciate the cultural significance of tokusatsu, which he calls a product of an era after defeat in the war, when a still-recovering Japan drew from its traditions of craftsmanship and working in miniature, seen in pot-size bonsai trees, to compete with bigger-budget American films.
"This company offers the very best of British craftsmanship and working within the EU helps them continue to trade with world-class brands," she added.
Even the pyramids, he said, were simply examples of engineering, good craftsmanship and hard work.
They have in common that they are all hand made, with exquisite craftsmanship, and the work of the latest generation of young artists to be snapped up by Charles Saatchi, collector of contemporary art.
And in the flowing curves of helmets and breast plates from Italy, as well as the craftsmanship and exquisite detail work, one can envision the beginnings of a tradition carried on by coachbuilders in Turin to this day.
Nonetheless, he does an excellent job detailing the meticulous craftsmanship and relentless hard work through which Fields, who began his career as a mute juggler in vaudeville, became a comedian renowned for his verbal dexterity.
Rodgers himself was always the consummate theatre professional, one who believed that he owed his success not to genius but to solid craftsmanship and disciplined hard work: as Secrest takes us through one brilliant Broadway show after another, you never doubt that it was all worthwhile.
Carl really believed in craftsmanship and making fine work.
Here you see the potency of craftsmanship at work, and the power of the cluster of likeminded people to create a longstanding business entity.
Instead of finding pleasure and pride in craftsmanship at work, they pursued happiness and status by buying things they didn't need and living without much purpose.
