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Well, it could have been the sounds of dozens of bones crunching as the hero (Sonny Chiba) dispatched platoons of hoodlums, or the blood that spurted into the camera from mouths and noses. Maybe the eye gougings did it. Certainly, by the time Chiba attacked a would-be rapist-leveling him with a flying fist and tearing his privates off, decorum and community standards had been sufficiently outraged so that a swift X was bestowed. Even more swiftly, the American distributors seized on this dubious honor and tried to turn it to their advantage...
...land-poor country's 700 golf courses take up as much space as 1½ Tokyos. Seven hundred more courses are on the planning boards, and nature lovers have nightmares of the whole country eventually being converted into one vast patchwork of putting greens and sand traps. In Chiba prefecture, southeast of Tokyo, there are so many courses that the area is becoming known as "the golfers' Ginza...
...Chiba officials worry that wells may run dry just keeping grass green on the 22,000 acres of land devoted to golf...
...mountainous nation has long since been given over to cities and needed farms; by necessity, many greens have been put on hillsides, where they result in the destruction of forests, blocked streams and erosion. "There's something definitely abnormal about this, a bit of sheer outlandishness," says Chiba prefecture's governor, Taketo Tomono, an occasional golfer. To discourage the building of more courses, Tomono's government has stipulated that they must meet severe-perhaps impossible -ecological standards. "It will be tough indeed," he boasts, "for a new course to open up in our prefecture." Following Tomono...
...public explanation was that Hirohito, whose October calendar is crowded with such events as a national athletic meet in Chiba prefecture and the 60th dedication of the Ise Shrine,* is simply too busy to make the trip this year. In fact, the imperial regrets were yet another sign of the internal political troubles besetting the eight-month-old Liberal Democratic regime headed by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka...