Word: kobe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taoka, who is currently on trial for income tax evasion, extortion and labor-law violation, last week granted a rare interview to TIME Correspondent S. Chang at his sumptuous Western-style house on the fringes of Kobe, which neighbors have dubbed the "Taoka Palace." "Throughout the interview," Chang cabled, "there was a distinct element of opéra bouffe. The house compound is patrolled by a handful of crop-haired, heavy-set henchmen, who in greeting bow gawkily, like giant pandas trying to crouch. Inside, Taoka's great drawing room is deeply carpeted and adorned with many trophies presented...
...Clearly, Taoka has come a long way since that day in 1937, when, as a small-time hoodlum on the Kobe docks, he finished off a rival gang member with one downswing of his samurai sword -the first step in his rise to the position of Japan's No. 1 oyabun...
Help from Kobe. The Seattle Totems professional hockey team collected 1,000 donations of food for Neighbors at one of its games. The Seattle SuperSonics professional basketball team drew 900 paying customers -at $1 a head-to a practice session. The proceeds, and food donated by another 600 fans in lieu of cash admissions, went to the Neighbors' hunger program. Help also came from Kobe, Japan, Seattle's "sister city," which had received shipments of food and supplies from Seattle residents after World War II. Last week Actress Katharine Cornell sent a $500 check...
...bright day last week, it reached Shikoku, smallest of Japan's four main islands, where more schoolchildren were suddenly afflicted with sore throats and eyes. Pollution experts later surmised that a freak wind had blown pollutants 70 miles across the Inland Sea from the industrial cities of Kobe, Kyoto and Osaka...
...result of agricultural advances, only 18% of the Japanese people are needed to feed the country and produce a surplus. The dispossessed farmers cram the cities, and the cities have been woefully shortchanged. The "Tokaido Corridor," a slender, 366-mile coastal belt running along the Pacific from Tokyo to Kobe, was long celebrated for its beauty in misty wood-block prints and delicate, 17-syllable haiku. Today, with 50% of the population crammed into the corridor, it is a smog-covered slurb...