Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past 15 years, John Scott, an assistant to TIME'S publisher, has been roaming the world and reporting on its major problems. His assignments have varied from the Common Market to the turmoil of Southeast Asia. After his trips, Scott, a former TIME foreign correspondent, lectures on his findings in four languages (English, Russian, French and German) to business and academic audiences around the world...
...also writes a book-length report on each tour, which we send to business executives, government officials, educators, labor leaders. This week we are distributing Scott's latest study, done after visits to Asia, South America and Europe. Its title: "Hunger-Must We Starve?" Scott's answer: Not necessarily, provided that man makes the most of modern methods of population control and improves food production. His next subject: Viet...
...which the Liberal Democrats might ultimately become allied. As a result of last week's elections, Japan can now count on many more years of the sort of relatively reasoned and reasonable rule that has made it an island of prosperity, democracy and stability in a widely chaotic Asia...
...vote underscored the importance of a stable Japan in the future of Asia, and pointed a path of sanity and soundness that runs in calm contrast to the instability that has characterized the 18 years of Communist China's post-revolutionary history. After all, it is a scant quarter-century since Japan itself went wild and sent its aggression spilling across the Pacific from Singapore to Pearl Harbor. That adventure cost Japan 1½ million lives and taught a proud nation the humbling lesson of pragmatism...
...than any other nation in the world; yet it has at the same time retained a tough inner core of national identity. Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer, who believes that Japan in the last year has taken over from China as the dominant shaping force of Asia, last week assessed Japan's new role in his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "Not so much because it is a Pacific land, but because it is a thoroughly modernized country, Japan is as much a natural partner and ally of the U.S. as any country...