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Kirk left Honolulu to San Francisco Monday en route to Ottawa, Canada for a meeting with the leaders of British Commonwealth governments next week
...HONOLULU, Hawaii--Norman E. Kirk, prime minister of New Zealand, vowed last week to do "everything possible" to end further French nuclear testing in the South Pacific...
...investment coincides with a surge in Japanese tourism. Since 1970, when Japan Air Lines initiated a $250 round-trip package tour between Japan and Honolulu, the annual number of Japanese visitors has jumped from 130,000 to 235,000. About 12% of all the islands' tourists are from Japan, and within five years, one-fourth are expected to be. Even a local pornography shop has signs in both English and Japanese...
Residents whose income is tied to the tourist trade fear that they will be shut out by the new owners. Some Honolulu tourist officials complain that the Japanese are developing a "closed system" in which their countrymen fly J.A.L., use Japanese-owned hotels, buses, shops and restaurants, and Japanese tour guides. "American interests do not see a dollar's worth of business," says one official. The Japanese investors, however, deny this charge...
When the Okai Land Corp. bought a public golf course in Honolulu, rumors circulated that the course was to go private-for Japanese tourists only The new manager, Shozo Watanabe, denies this. As he told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos, "We are foreigners. We don't want to make mistakes. Even if we thought something was better, if it wouldn't seem better to local residents, we wouldn...