Word: kamisaka
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...Allen could not have been surprised by the honorarium since he himself had negotiated it with the magazine. Another point of dispute involves two Seiko Quartz digital watches, worth about $135 each, that Mrs. Takase gave Allen. He describes them as personal gifts received before the Inauguration. Reporter Fuyuko Kamisaka, who purchased the watches for Mrs. Takase, said again last week that one watch was given before the swearing-in, while the second was handed over afterward. The timing is crucial, because Administration officials are barred from keeping such gifts. Finally, the Tokyo newspaper Mainichi reported late last week that...
...editor, along with Allen and Mrs. Takase, met with the First Lady for about 15 minutes in the White House. The group mostly exchanged pleasantries, since nearly all the questions had been submitted beforehand and answers were provided after the interview. After the meeting, according to Reporter Fuyuko Kamisaka, Mrs. Takase handed Allen a brown envelope containing $1,000 in cash...
...gift, according to the magazine's executive editor, was meant for Mrs. Reagan. In her article, published last March, Kamisaka said she had been told the money would be given to charity. But Allen instead placed the money in a safe in his office in the Old Executive Office Building; he now says that he accepted the money to avoid offending his visitors, since he believed it was common practice for Japanese journalists to pay honorariums for interviews. Allen also insisted that he intended to turn over the money to the Treasury Department but simply forgot. A few weeks...
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