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...Your cover story on Japan, the Japanese and Expo 70 was a masterpiece. Totally exhilarating. Your penetrating insight perfectly captured everything Japanese...
...brisk breezes, cannons boomed a five-gun salute and a 100-piece orchestra blared Fanfare of the 21st Century, a piece specially written by composer Masaru Sato. Then two giant robots clanked into Festival Plaza, disgorging 110 members of a children's band who launched into the Expo March. Japan's gaudy Expo '70 was officially under...
...World War II, has far outdistanced every Asian nation, and most of those in the West, in an amazing economic surge that has carried it into third place (behind the U.S. and the Soviet Union) among the world's industrial giants. Gaudy, opulent, bursting at the seams, Expo '70 stands as the supreme symbol of Japan's growing self-confidence and strength...
Animals No More. Two years of intensive preparations and more than $2 billion (a large part of it for new roads, subways and housing to handle the mobs) have gone into Expo. "Why not?" asked Taizo Ishizaka, president of the Japan Expo Association. "Once in a blue moon, we Japanese must indulge in one colossal binge." Another Japanese businessman, commenting on the cost, predicted: "Nobody outside Japan is going to call us economic animals any longer. If we were, we wouldn't have spent so much for such a thing...
Seventy-seven countries and one colony (Hong Kong) have pavilions on the 815-acre Expo site. The U.S. exhibit, catering to the baseball-mad Japanese, features Babe Ruth's uniform, a lunar module and a genuine moon rock. The Russians are showing the two Soyuz rockets that docked in space in 1969, as well as a replica of the elegant 19th century room of Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, complete with his actual grand piano...