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Chou En-lai is the guiding influence behind China's re-entry into the world scene. Unlike most other Chinese Communist leaders, Chou is sophisticated and widely traveled. He comes from a family of feudal gentry, was raised in Shanghai, had studied in Tokyo, Kyoto, Tientsin and Paris, and speaks French, fair English and some German. As Premier (since 1949) and Foreign Minister (from 1949 to 1958), he visited at least 29 different countries and maintained a constant dialogue with high-level foreign visitors to Peking. With a personality far more cosmopolitan than Mao's, Chou...
Side Effects. Tokyo has never lacked for master plans. The boldest was designed in 1960 by Architect Kenzo Tange, whose ambitious blueprint to extend the city out over Tokyo Bay attracted attention round the world, but was virtually ignored at home. Though never geisha-gracious like Kyoto, its sister city to the southwest, Tokyo has always made up for its lack of physical charm with a sense of rawboned excitement. Its pleasure districts are the gaudiest anywhere. The hub of the nation's cultural life, Tokyo boasts five symphony orchestras, attracts most of the country's artists...
...climax of screen painting occurred during the Momoyama period (1573-1614) when a group of Japanese warlords moved Japan's capital from Kyoto to a fishing village called Edo, now the site of modern Tokyo. Their gloomy castles with gloomy interiors needed an especially sumptuous kind of decoration. Screen painters like Kaihō Yushō supplied it. Yushō's Fish Nets, with its jagged forms of dark blue sea and gold-leaf land, traversed by the swooping rhythms of the nets strung out to dry on poles, transforms an everyday sight into an event of monumental starkness...
...Kyoto, Nader sat down on the straw tatanri mat floor of a Japanese inn with leaders of Japan's fledgling consumers' union and composed a six-page open letter to Prime Minister Eisaku Sato suggesting that cars sold in Japan should have the same safety devices -seat belts, headrests, dual braking systems-that are put on models exported to the U.S. He also made the point that every time a Japanese company recalls its cars in the U.S.. it should be required to do so in Japan. The next day, Honda Motor Company recalled 63,000 cars...
Sibling rivalry is one thing, but Juanita Castro may well be carrying it to an extreme. In Kyoto, Japan, last week for an anti-Communist rally, Fidel Castro's younger sister-who once helped raise funds for his revolutionary movement-could not contain her antagonisms. "It was true that the Cuban people were in miserable conditions under the Batista dictatorship," said Juanita, who has been living in Miami since defecting from Cuba in 1964, "but Castro's dictatorship has made it worse." For the sake of democracy in Cuba, she dramatically added, she would even...