Rather as Italians thought their Renaissance was an upwelling of disciplined classicism Rome reborn from the ashes of "barbarous" Gothic so the Kyoto Renaissance strove torecallthe spirit of the Japanese past, as far back as the Heian era (794-1185), especially in the domain of writing.
The strengths of the study include the fact that it made use of company records to identify cell phone users, thus avoiding the bias involved in asking subjects torecall their past use.