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...recent Sunday, a Honolulu matron answered the door of her stately home to find three Japanese businessmen who offered her $300,000 for it on the spot; they wanted it as a vacation center for their Hiroshima workers. When she refused, the group's spokesman replied: "Ah, I understand. The $300,000 was merely for the house. The grounds we can discuss later." Similar, if less startling, offers are being made all over Hawaii these days as Japanese businessmen step up their efforts to buy control of hotels, shops, travel agencies, land and private estates...
...million, mostly in the islands' booming tourist industry. "If the current pace of Japanese investment continues, it could mean foreign control of the state's leading industry within the next five years," concludes a report of the Republican caucus in the state house of representatives. A Honolulu cab driver is more blunt: "What the Japanese couldn't do during World War II, they are trying to do with bags of money-take over these islands...
...Japanese have bought eleven hotels that account for 11% of Hawaii's 36,000 rooms, and they have two other hotels under construction. Among the Japanese-owned hotels: the Hawaiian Regent, the Surfsider and the Imperial Hawaiian. They have bought two Honolulu golf courses and some 3,000 acres of resort development land on the big island of Hawaii...
...partly diplomatic. The 22 news officials are returning last fall's visit to China of 22 members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. When the tour concludes June 17, the Chinese will have covered 8,000 miles in four weeks and spanned the U.S. from Manhattan to Honolulu...
Also: Karen L. Peterson of Quincy House and Honolulu, Hawaii; Linda Rink of Lowell House and Wilmington, Del.; Patti B. Saris of Dunster House and Boston; Abby Sniderman of Mather House and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Jill E. Stein of Dudley House and Highland Park, III.; Ann F. Thomas of Currier House and Cherry Hill, N.J.; Sarah E. Thompson of North House and Lexington, Ky.; Helen R. Trilling of Quincy House and Woodland Hills, Calif.; and, Nancy E. Wilson of Leverett House and Coral Gables...