[silk] Living the slow life

[sriram bala]

I've been grokking  the Slow Life  movement  in Japan for  sometime  now. 
The article on Wired got me started. http://www.wired.com/news/columns/1,70013-1.html
I've put up a bunch of articles that I've found on the web at http://srirambala.com/sandbox/slowlife/

Here's a brief description from a BBC article on Slow Life to get you started:

Japan's free spirits
It is nearly 15 years since Japan's economy ground to a halt, triggering a period of
introspection about the country's values and its place in the world. In the second of a
special series, BBC News Online's Sarah Buckley reports on how young people's
expectations about work are changing.