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...Precisely a month later, when the President proposed tough monetary policies and import surcharge taxes that will seriously affect the Japanese economy, Sato was only given ten minutes' advance notice. Discussing the double-barreled blow recently at ceremonies opening the new Japan House in New York City, Professor Jun Eto of the Tokyo Institute of Technology said: "It was almost as if the black ships had reappeared off the coast of Japan." The Japanese described Nixon's twin action as an ofuku binta?the forehand-backhand slap in the face that imperial army officers administered to erring soldiers before...
...apprehension underscored by the errant current lingers. "Our tomorrow is like a large elephant," says Businessman Kazuo Matsuoka, "and we are like blind people trying to figure out its proportions by touch." Tokyo's foremost futurologist, Professor Shinkichi Eto of Tokyo University, believes that he has some idea of the dimensions. Eto's projection: "The most probable course for Japan to follow will be for her to drop the growth rate [from 11.1% in the 1960s] to 5% in the 1970s. That level will be maintained through the '80s and '90s. By the final decade of this century, Japan will...
...Grand Vision. It is when they look beyond their shores that the Japanese find the world most troubling. Laments Shinkichi Eto, respected Tokyo University professor of political science: "Japanese leadership has no grand political vision, no long-range plan of national aims." That seemed not to matter very much through the long years of bipolar, East-West confrontation. "But now that the multipolar world is emerging," Eto adds, "the Japanese suddenly have no idea what they should...
There is no doubt that Japan will eventually recognize China. "The main thing," says Tokyo University Professor Shinkichi Eto, "is not to do anything that irritates Peking." To that end, Japan Air Lines and the Nippon Steel Corp., the country's largest steel producer, last week boycotted economic conferences with Taiwan, and five Japanese shipping lines decided to stop serving Chiang Kai-shek's island. Although two-way trade with Peking was less last year than with Taiwan ($825 million v. $955 million), it is a rare Japanese businessman who does not relish the prospect of 800 million...
Maurice D. Kilbridge, acting dean of the Faculty of Design, was not available for comment yesterday. He has not yet released any official statement on the exhibit. Fishman said that the School will probably not ?eto the exhibit, but "it'll be in bureaucratic limbo forever...