Word: kabuki
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...make up for it-with a show the world would never forget. Flags honoring 94 nations flew everywhere in Tokyo-7,000 of them, tended by 10,000 uniformed boy scouts. Hotels were jammed with 130,000 foreign tourists hard put to take in all the shrines, nightclubs and kabuki shows. Special police squad cars manned by a corps of smiling interpreters cruised the city searching for the lost, or merely bewildered-looking foreigners. Quaint old Japanese customs were put aside to make sure that Tokyo presented only its most decorous face to the visitors-five people were summarily arrested...
JAPAN displays its ancient arts and modern crafts, consumer products and heavy industrial machines in an intricate maze of buildings. Its best attraction is an outdoor demonstration of samurai dueling, Kabuki players and judo experts, as well as the tea-ceremony performance, where the ancient disciplines are enacted by pretty Japanese hostesses in gorgeous, drip-dry kimonos...
...with the jangle of small metal pinballs, 527 movie houses, 30 bowling alleys, a triple-decker golf driving range near the Tokyo Tower, four full-scale symphony orchestras, three opera companies, three baseball parks (drawing as many as 45,000 spectators a night) and of course there is the Kabuki Theater. There is also Tokyo's industry to be seen-the vast Honda plant that cranks out motorcycles of all sizes and speeds (see MODERN LIVING); the glittering edifices of the banking and manufacturing cartels; the movie industry that has given the screen the best and cheapest imitations...
JAPAN displays ancient arts and modern crafts, consumer products ranging from TV sets and cameras to microscopes and automobiles. All this is assembled in a complex of buildings circling a many-leveled courtyard, featuring samurai duelers, Kabuki (and other) dancers, judo wrestlers...
...collection of great paintings in an exquisite building proved so popular that the pavilion had to start charging 250 admission just to control the crush inside. The elegant Japanese pavilion is another hit, with a beautifully balanced display of new products and ancient crafts, samurai dueling, judo wrestling and Kabuki dancing. With a few notable exceptions such as Illinois and its electronic Abe, a number of state and foreign pavilions are in trouble. The New England pavilion expects to end at least...