Word: isozaki
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shinkansen, or bullet express, most of the country's rail service, operated by the government-owned Japanese National Railways, is a tangled, money-losing mess of aged equipment, angry employees and boiling riders. So bad is the trouble that a few weeks ago, JNR President Satoshi Isozaki abruptly quit and, to emphasize the discouraging nature of the job, pointedly refused to follow tradition and recommend a successor...
...Japanese never consider cities solid, lasting existences as the Europeans or Americans do," says Architect Arata Isozaki, 38. "Ours have been destroyed so often by wars, fires and earthquakes that we believe that when it comes to cities, change is the sole permanent characteristic...