Word: ginza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Names. High as the Rousseau's price was, it made no stir in Japan's suddenly febrile art market, which is a reflection of the country's prosperity. One of Hasegawa's neighbors in the Ginza, the Yoshii Gallery, sold a Rouault oil to a collector for $2.6 million last year, and Japan's new passion for Western painting has been reflected in similarly inflated prices all the way down the line. Works by the old reliables of the Paris School-Chagall, Modigliani, Renoir, Picasso-many of inferior quality and some of them outright fakes...
...magazine was blue enough to make a Times Square news dealer wince, but Japanese intellectuals have since made Nakata into a kind of Ginza Ginzburg. Critic Isamu Kurita, writing in the influential Tokyo daily Yomiuri Shimbun, warned that excessive official zeal in enforcing Japan's tough obscenity laws could lead to "the barbarization of our culture and civilization in its crudest form." Tokyo Psychology Professor Kazuo Shimada sputtered that Nakata's arrest was unfair because sex "is a personal and private matter." Mitsuo Takeya, a leading Japanese nuclear physicist, worried that government repression "could end up by distorting...
...Tokyo, crowds gathered outside department-store display windows along the Ginza to watch live TV coverage from Peking. In Seoul, the summit glowed from sets in jampacked downtown teahouses. The presidential trip was the biggest news item in Rome since the Italian team made the finals of the 1970 World Cup soccer matches; in Uganda, it rivaled the excitement of Apollo 15. For Southeast Asia's overseas Chinese populations, the event held a special quality. A bank on Singapore's Collyer Quay sold out a supply of 500 special $4 commemorative coins in a matter of minutes; within...
...York's lead, and with good reason. During a five-day stretch last month, the world's largest city was nearly asphyxiated when exhaust fumes from its 2,000,000 cars were trapped overhead by a temperature inversion (TIME, Aug. 10). Autos were first kept away from Ginza Street, the famed half-mile-long business thoroughfare, plus three other shopping areas. Later the ban was extended to 122 of the city's busy streets...
Buddhists and Bikinis. The advent of Tokyo's hodosha tengoku ("pedestrians' paradise") touched off a fierce sales battle to lure customers into shops. One store on the Ginza offered to decorate the street with 3,000 potted petunias. Another used bikini-clad girls to dispense 10,000 servings of ice cream to passersby. While the streets were enlivened by antiwar protesters, beggars and robed Buddhist monks, news cameramen recorded the scene from helicopters whirring about in the suddenly clear blue skies. At street level, concentrations of lethal carbon monoxide dropped from 10.5 parts per million...