Word: hibiya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Western symphony orchestra to tour the Far East (sponsored by the U.S. State Department, ANTA and Japan's Mainichi newspapers), the Symphony of the Air packed Tokyo's 2,600-seat Hibiya Hall for the opening concert. Scalpers were collecting $22 for $5 tickets. Conductor Walter Hendl of the Dallas Symphony led a program of Berlioz, Gershwin, Richard Strauss and Brahms, got a six-minute ovation from an audience which included Crown Prince Akihito. Twenty-four hours before tickets went on sale for a special student concert, crowds began to line up at the box office...
Last week 800 Japanese women met in Tokyo's cavernous Hibiya Hall to consider their lot under the new dispensation. Grey-haired oldsters in kimonos and obis, bobbed-haired college girls in sweaters and skirts, aggressive feminists in slacks, gabbled enthusiastically and glared in frosty disdain at the few men present. They pointed with pride to some of the advances gained by their sex since the constitution: divorce, women's suffrage, the acceptance of women in an ever expanding range of jobs (as legislators, police officers, taxi drivers, even judges), increased coeducation, the spread of women...
...along the line of march, Communist messengers ran up & down relaying orders. At Hibiya Park, one of the parade's non-Communist organizers worriedly pleaded through an improvised megaphone for the marchers to disband and go home. But he was scarcely heard above the steady chant of the Communists. "Yankee, go home!" they screamed, "Yankee, go home!" The Reds whipped nearly 10,000 into a follow-the-leader frenzy and suddenly turned Tokyo's May Day observance into an anti-American riot...