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...itinerary, vetoing any ideas that seemed to be too dangerous. Among them was Ford's suggestion that he attend an exhibition baseball game between the New York Mets and a Japanese all-star team. Secret Service men carefully examined Ford's accommodations in the lavish 300-room Akasaka Palace, which was modeled on Versailles during 1899-1909 and refurbished recently at a cost of $33 million...
Tuesday morning Ford was to have an audience with Emperor Hirohito, who planned to honor him that evening with a formal banquet at the Imperial Palace. On both Tuesday and Wednesday, Ford and Tanaka expected to spend several hours together at the Akasaka Palace, discussing mutual defense arrangements, trade, relations with Communist China, inflation and the energy crisis. In addition, Tanaka sought a promise that the U.S. would not restrict food sales to Japan in the future, while Ford hoped to receive assurances that the Japanese Diet would ratify the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. After reciprocating with a dinner for Hirohito...
...samurai culture, have a style and a subject matter that could only have taken hold in a bustling, sophisticated city like 18th century Edo (later called Tokyo). In Edo, a new class of merchants and craftsmen had risen. Like any bunch of Sony executives whooping it up in an Akasaka nightclub, the members of this bourgeoisie took their pleasures as they came and liked art to reflect them...
...cash is needed not for television coverage, which is free, but for more or less openly buying delegate votes. Already the lavish wooing of the 478 delegates voting in next week's election is being conducted in the expensive geisha restaurants of Tokyo's Akasaka district. According to widely circulated rumors, a delegate can receive $1,500 for merely attending one of these persuasion sessions. If he promises his support, the reward can jump to as high as $15,000 for an ordinary delegate and $30,000 for the leader of a faction. In some cases, the faction...
...enjoying a boom as a spectator sport, with scores of strip joints and nude theaters ? but not, as yet, top less waitresses. The Ginza is still To kyo's main entertainment street, but the rising sin district is Akasaka, where ground-floor bar patrons in the Biblos bend not only their elbows but also their necks ? to leer at couples dancing on a transparent plastic floor above. Of the 493 movies that Japan produced last year, ductions." The 250 were hottest flick right adults-only now "ero-is ? what else? ? Sexpo...