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...different manner. Some 20 years after Admiral Perry revealed Japan to the world, an American university professor taught some of his students how to play baseball. Since then, the nation has been hooked. Each year, some 12 million fans jam its stadiums to eat an American import called the hotto dogu and scream "ganbare" (Let's go) as Japan's twelve professional teams battle each other with the ferocity of a samurai...
...aching shoulders of bowling-alley patrons on six continents, for the new tendency of Iranian pilots to name their children Mark or David or Joe instead of Reza or Parviz or Taghi, for the popularity of Velveeta cheese in Germany, Kellogg's cornflakes in England and the ubiquitous hotto doggu in Japan...
Dotto is so hotto just at the moment that it plays on rival networks-CBS, which launched the show earlier this year, by day, and a new NBC slot at night. A "champion" and a "challenger" must solve a picture puzzle consisting initially of a spattering of dots. To connect the dots and get the picture's outlines clearer, contestants must answer questions. When the picture is guessed, e.g., the face of Napoleon, the winner is rewarded at a base-pay scale of $20 per unconnected dots. This may soar with such refinements as Double Dotto, Triple Dotto...
...their way to work, Tokyo citizens read the news, mostly from billboards slapped up around the city by newspapers. To Westerners, their faces showed nothing. The predominant sentiment expressed was "Hotto shita ne"-which, colloquially, means "I'm glad it's all over...
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