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...Japanese quotations, done in reinforced concrete. Since then a generation of architects-some of them Tange's former students at Tokyo University-has proved less interested in formal revivalism than in a more conceptual relationship to their heritage. Outstanding among these (but still, one among several) is Arata Isozaki, 52, whose as yet unbuilt design for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles may turn out to be the most remarkable building conceived by a Japanese architect in the West. Isozaki's relation to the Japanese past is denned by what he calls "basic continuities-ideas about...
...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...
...Sukarno seemed the most relaxed Indonesian. In Tokyo, on the last leg of a jaunt through Asia, he went with his staff to a geisha party at the Tskuki No lye (House of the Moon) and renewed a fond acquaintance with a pretty, 29-year-old geisha named Keiko Isozaki, whom he had known during World War II in the Japanese-occupied Celebes where she was entertaining the Japanese troops and he was a Japanese supporter. Next day, Sukarno's Imperial Hotel suite had a hospital hush until late in the afternoon. Explained a wan Indonesian aide...