Word: kyoto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arriving in Japan with four other U.S. Cabinet members to attend the fifth annual Cabinet-level conference of the two governments, Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, 54, and his wife Mary left the rest of the gang at the doors of their Western-style rooms in Kyoto's elegant Miyako Hotel and headed for the Japanese wing. Beds are all very comfy at home, but when in Japan do as the ... A thin tatami mat, please, and they couldn't be more comfortable stretched right out there on the floor. "It feels wonderful and is very good...
...enough when the kid became a Buddhist," said one Rockefeller aide. "But a Democrat? That's going too far." Actually, John D. Rockefeller IV, 28, never became a Buddhist while he was studying Japanese culture on $30 a month in Kyoto, though he is committing the other heresy. Young "Jay," whose Uncle Nelson runs the New York Statehouse and Uncle Winthrop is running for the one in Arkansas, is filing as a candidate for the West Virginia house of delegates-as a Democrat. At present, Jay is a neighborhood worker in Action for Appalachian Youth, a field that...
HIROSHIGE-Mi Chou, 801 Madison Ave. at 68th. In his 53 Stages of Tokaido, Japan's 19th century master printmaker depicts the teahouses and travelers, rainy downpours and icicled landscapes along the road that runs from Tokyo to Kyoto. Through...
...White Paper, the Education Ministry bewails the plight of the ronin-and passes the blame on to Japanese social rigidity. The country has 72 states and 188 private colleges, but the ronin aspire chiefly to get into only four of them: the state universities of Tokyo and Kyoto and the two leading private universities, Waseda and Keio. Because old school ties at these colleges are so strong-stronger than in the U.S.'s Ivy League and even than at England's Oxford and Cambridge-graduation from one of the four is a ticket of admission to good jobs...
...have been trying to get into that school for as much as eight years. Michio Nagai, a former visiting professor at Columbia who teaches sociology at Tokyo's Institute of Technology, proposes a law limiting the percentage of graduates that a company can hire from topflight Tokyo or Kyoto universities. He also suggests a nationwide system of entrance exams, like the U.S. College Boards, which would rank students by ability so that the less qualified would accept admission at less-than-Ivy schools, thus giving every roaming ronin a home...