By asserting themselves, building careers and reaching ears, minds and imaginations, they are also opening up a field that can look closed and reactionary – and not only opening it to more forward-looking attitudes, but potentially to a new audience for a new era.
All this shows that Japan is not closed to foreigners, says Mr Nagashima, "but when things are very different, it just looks closed".Foreign firms going into Japan need to understand the local market but must also offer something distinctive, says Gerhard Fasol of Eurotechnology, a consultancy based in Tokyo that advises foreign companies about doing business in Japan.
Small shops look closed but are open"), and, toward the end, a penetrating poignance colors the portrait of an imagined James Joyce who quietly tends bar south of Dublin and attends Mass daily, who did not die in Switzerland but lived on, disowning "Ulysses" as a "dirty book" and forgetting "Finnegans Wake" entirely.
The rights looked closed-out (unmakable), and terribly powerful, and, even if you made one, the ride would carry you straight into the big, hungry-looking rocks of outer Black Point.
Don't slouch (it makes it harder to breathe and hurts your back) or cross your arms (You'll look closed-off and grumpy- not what you want!).
If you look closely, you should see their eyes twitching while closed.
"We just come off looking more closed and isolated".
We will be looking for closed solutions of (1.1), which Theorem 2.1 does not inform us about.
But, as we were looking for closed doors, doors kept opening and it just became clear that I wasn't stepping out to do this on my own.
At Heathrow, passengers milled around, looking at closed check-in desks and gazing up at departure boards listing rows of cancellations.
