At a moment when Japanese society was experiencing a shake-up perhaps even more radical than the events of 1968 in the West, Tora-san was there to provide continuity with the past, reinforce family structures and social hierarchies, and paper over urban and rural divisions.
Officially recording the wrongs done to victims, which were typically officially denied in the past, reinforces the equal moral standing of victims (du Toit, 2000).
They help us solve problems and interpret information quickly based on patterns we've experienced in the past, reinforced over time.
The results obtained in the past reinforce the observation that some mutant p53 proteins accumulate and have oncogenic roles during carcinogenesis [ 26, 27].
It's hard enough shedding the "wannabe" image without past candidates reinforcing the stereotype.
If religion wants to be a tool of evolution rather than its victim, it cannot retreat into past orthodoxy, reinforcing dogma and shutting its eyes to new methods of change.
The high strain rate properties of some steels have been studied in the past; mostly reinforcing bars, plates and hot-rolled sections.
But in a perverse way watching "1900 House," which reminded me just how much progress we have achieved over the past century, reinforced some of my doubts about how much progress we can expect in the future.
Thus, in the past, many reinforced concrete buildings in developing countries collapsed during severe earthquakes (including those in Costa Rica in 1991 (Al-Tarazi 2000), in Nicaragua in 1992 (Kanamori and Kikuchi 1993), and in Egypt in 1995 (Suarez et al. 1995)).
"Nobody has spent the political capital in the past to reinforce necessary changes," he says.
