Word: kyoto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Different Faces. The Far East has nearly as many different faces as it has gods. Some tourists try to capture its flavor by slipping into Japanese kimonos and sleeping on the tatami floors of Kyoto inns, where Kannon, the goddess of mercy, dreams among the maple trees. They go as pilgrims to the Great Buddha of Nakamura or, if they get as far as Southeast Asia, stand in awed silence at Angkor, whose 40 square miles of ruins in the Cambodian jungle are about all that remain of the ancient 8th to 11th century Khmer civilization...
...second part of the program. Yoichi Yokoburi, journalist for the Kyoto News Bureau and a left-wing socialist, said the Tokyo riots were the result of widespread hatred of the pending security treaty, and even more perhaps, anger at the "Fascist-like actions of the Kishi regimo," which used "police force in the Diet chamber to bring about ratification." The days of rioting were not Communist-inspired, he told the audience...