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...wonder to Western industries; a pressure point in the U.S.-Soviet staring match; a power without arms. Looking inward, Japan sees old ways shaken and new ones moving at so hectic a pace that the nation's next volcano may erupt not from the quiescent cone of Mount Fuji but from the people themselves, who could be outrunning their...
...their lives. One psychiatrist observes, "Japanese kill themselves for more or less altruistic reasons, not out of egoism or self-pity." And they kill the children to spare them the pain of growing up without their parents. Lately police have found dozens of bodies in the forests around Mount Fuji. People travel from all over Japan to commit suicide there. The place has been named "Suicide Forest." The police have posted blunt notices there that killing oneself is not romantic, that bodies are eaten by animals or decay and can be smelled 50 meters away...
...says he will stay within that limit. "I have no intention of removing the ceiling," he told TIME. Nonetheless, he has abolished a longstanding taboo against exchanging military technology with the U.S. Troops from the two countries held joint exercises for the first time earlier this year at Mount Fuji...
...companies hope for a high rate of publicity return, and will probably get it. For the Olympics, for example, Coke becomes the official soft drink, and may say so in ads. American Express is the official credit card, McDonald's the official fast-food restaurant. Tokyo's Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. grabbed the right to be the supplier of film and processing for the Games, edging out Eastman Kodak...
...international film-speed measuring standard, whose ratings are similar to the previously used American one, ASA.) The company's most popular color print film, Kodacolor II, has a rating of 100. Kodak and several rivals, including Europe's Agfa-Gevaert Group, the Japanese Fuji Photo Film Co. and Minnesota's 3M Co., produce less popular, and more expensive, print films with 400 ratings...