But as many people in the bars of Shinjuku wryly note, in other areas of policy, Mr Abe's dearest wish is to rewrite the bits of the constitution that he finds archaic.
I read through the Bhagavad Gita, expecting to find an archaic, illegible piece of scripture that would make no sense to me.
A similar pattern is found among archaic agricultural peoples.
It also found the "archaic and barbaric practice" of live baiting – training dogs by having them chase and kill small animals including possums, pigs and rabbits – was likely to be widespread.
Dr. Kenneth D. Rose, an anatomist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, said these were the first well-preserved ankles to be found in archaic whale fossils and "were the most important region morphologically for establishing evolutionary relationships as early whales were in the process of becoming aquatic".
Lieb and co-founder Jake Mintz found it archaic that, with all the sensors and communication channels embedded in our phones, people were still fiddling to type in each other's contact info rather than continuing their conversations.
Lieb and co-founder Jake Mintz found it archaic that, with all the sensors and communication channels embedded in our phones, people were still fiddling to type in each other's contact info rather than continuing their conversations.
He found it archaic, lumbering, hard to fathom why voters voted this way or that.
As with so many modern problems, the answer will not to be found in archaic industrial-strength solutions imposed on single neighborhoods, but in millions of large and small changes in everyone's behavior.
Though I knew Mr. Coronica meant no slight by his words — either to the grape, or to women who might find his sentiments archaic — they still struck me as faint praise.
