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...Tanaka's visit was rated a considerable success, a healthy turning point, perhaps, in Japanese-American relations. To underline their new equality, both leaders agreed on a further exchange of visits, with Nixon going to Japan and Emperor Hirohito traveling to the U.S. Though Tanaka's opposition in Tokyo quickly denounced the trips, both journeys are expected to take place before the end of 1974. At the same time, the U.S. promised to help Japan gain a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council-further, if belated, recognition that Japan is now one of the world...
...fable of the emperor's clothes it was a child ignorant of the rules who hollered that he was naked. (Certainly the children had the biggest ball of all at the Whitney.) But you and I lack even rules. And it is a futile effort that searches for them. Ambiguity is all you will get out of this art scene. The artist is marketing wiseguyness (Warhol makes a six-hour movie of a man sleeping and distributes it as fast as his factories can manufacture it; Lichtenstein can't get off his punch line. "It seemed impossible to print something...
...successful trip meant an invitation to return next year. Park said that Harvard is also considering a trip to Hawaii and Japan within the next two years. But it is unlikely that the batmen will get an audience with Japanese Emperor Hirohito as they did with Pope Paul...
...boycott of parliament, which the other opposition parties joined, they forced Tanaka to drop a redistricting reform bill that would have virtually ensured the Liberal Democrats a permanent majority in parliament. They also played a major role in the political maneuvering that led to the embarrassing cancellation of Emperor Hirohito's planned state visit to the U.S. If Tanaka is forced by circumstance to resign as Premier before the completion of his three-year term, chances are that the Communists will be held chiefly responsible...
...self-destruction. His fictional suicide is Isao lunuma, a right-wing student with an obsessional love of Samurai tradition and a hatred for the 20th century's destruction of imperial values. lunuma enjoys an almost erotic anticipation of the moment when he will solemnly disembowel himself for the Emperor. In the 1930s, he assembles a group of similarly obsessed conspirators to plot the assassinations of Japan's leading industrialists, hoping to precipitate a general uprising against the corruption of Japan's ancient national spirit...