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Abstract: In Japan, the new steel‐glass architecture of railway stations observes usually not only the typical canons of aesthetics but often also – increasingly – the local habits, traditions and social features. Moreover, such architecture is understood to respect well the natural and built environment – forming friendly compositions, which respond fairly to the needs of contemporary Japanese people. Thus, that architecture becomes certain steel‐glass art of structures. In this paper, on the basis of several practical examples, such special steel‐glass art will be presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In August 2002 the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology decided to rename the Japanese expression for schizophrenia from Sêshin Bunretsu Byô to Tôgô Shicchô Shô. Currently the psychiatric classification systems ICD-10 and DSM-IV are under revision. Against this background the Japanese process of renaming a psychiatric disorder is of high interest as far as the clinical, social and cultural implications of the new name are concerned. The authors give an overview of the Japanese process of renaming schizophrenia. Its background and realization are explained and the expectations of Japanese physicians, patients and their families related to the new name are analysed. Furthermore, its effects are evaluated. The aim of the paper is to clarify in how far the Japanese example may serve as a model for evaluating the possible implications that a renaming or nosological redefinition of schizophrenia might have in the course of the revision process of ICD 10 and DSM IV. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]