Word: kokusai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Motoji Hatano decided that something drastic had to be done. As president of Tokyo's Kokusai Bus Co., he could hardly ignore the fact that its 59 buses had had 22 accidents this spring-three times as many as last spring. It was the same with the other Japanese sightseeing-bus companies: a total of 51 crashes, 15 deaths, 843 injured. President Hatano's manager did some oriental-style brain-storming and came up with an idea any adman would be glad to put on the train for Westport. The idea: send the bus drivers...
Died. Count Aisuke Kabayama, 88, U.S.-educated organizer of Japan's first international news agency, Kokusai Tsushin (1914), who was arrested by the Japanese police in 1945, two months before his country's surrender, for attempting secret peace negotiations with the Allies; in Tokyo...
Hamaguchi, who also is an editor of Kokusai-Kentiku, a monthly architectural magazine, took several pictures of work done in the course. He intends to print them along with a story on Design 1 when he returns to Japan...