Figure 1. Multiple facets of future water shortage. The basins of ten large rivers that originate in Asia's high mountains vary in their total population (numbers for the year 2000 by color), in their susceptibility to water scarcity, and in the relative importance between potential causes More

Figure 1. A large bust erected in honor of Venerable Soma in his native village of Gangodawila, Nugegoda, a few miles outside Colombo. Sponsored by the Gangodawila Buddhist Foundation, the plaque extols the late monk as “extremely venerable,” “incomparable,” and “very noble” while confirming More

Figure 1. Development of Taiwanese publications in the Japanese colonial period. Larger nodes represent periodicals and smaller contributors; the lines represent respective acts of publication. Minzoku Taiwan , Bungei Taiwan , and Taiwan bungaku are represented by the green cluster at the top... More

Figure 6. Exhibit of Issei achievements in agriculture. This exhibit juxtaposes an untamed American frontier of the pre-Japanese immigrant era with photographic images of prosperous Issei agriculture, including large-scale rice farming that the Japanese had purportedly introduced into California More