Word: kyoto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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wanted to build a new consulate general in Kobe, Japan. Yamasaki went to Japan, was enchanted by the traditional architecture he saw. He visited the Katsura Palace and the Gosho (Old Imperial Palace) in Kyoto, spent hours studying the ancient temples in their garden settings. "I was overwhelmed by the serenity that can be achieved by enhancing nature," says he of those gardens. "It was here that I decided that serenity could be an important contribution to our environ ment, because our cities are so chaotic and full of turmoil." Work on the consulate general - a white structure raised slightly...
...make its own whisky. Though he hired a Glasgow-trained Japanese chemist and traveled endlessly trying to convince bartenders to stock Old Suntory, the company was still in the red when World War II ended. Fortunately, it had a huge amount of unsold whisky stocked in the hills near Kyoto...
...Kyoto one day, I stepped into a temple courtyard," he recalls. "Outside, in the street, all was noise and confusion. But, just a few yards away it was so quiet and beautiful and serene...
Most weeks, Matsushita goes to his Osaka office only for Monday business conferences. From there he is driven in his long black Cadillac (his only bit of ostentation) to a modest Kyoto town house where he occupies himself until Friday with his "old man's toy": the PHP, or Peace and Happiness through Prosperity Institute, which he set up in the desperate days after the war. In the monastic atmosphere of the institute's serene gardens, he sips tea, eats flower-petal cakes, and holds seminars with his three young research fellows, discussing how best to use abundance...
...Masao Takenaka, 36, professor of Christian social ethics at Kyoto's Doshisha University, deplored the prevalence of what he called the four Ds of Christianity: "divided, dependent, derived and dated." Cried he: "I cannot conscientiously sell such Christianity to my dearest friends. Modern man is sick and tired of hearing propaganda. He is anxious to meet people who will participate in his struggle. I feel the presence of Christians in the secular world is very important." Dr. Takenaka brought up a problem that was raised again and again among the younger churches-that of making Christianity indigenous...