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...city after city, the expensive plundering went on. In Kyoto, a taxi driver exclaimed in bewilderment over a 3,000 yen ($8) tip for a 100 yen (28?) fare. Pausing briefly to glance at Tokyo's famed Thunder Gate, one group of 40 plunged into the Japanese capital's shopping district followed by a truck in which to carry their purchases back to the Imperial Hotel. One persistent matron spotted a decorative street lantern erected by the city in honor of the Cherry Festival. "I want that," she demanded, collaring a nearby shopkeeper. "I did not want...
Taboo. In Kyoto, Japan, Yukitoki Yakigawa, president of Kyoto University, summed up in a speech to the graduating class: "My final warning to you is ... never touch a drink paid for by others. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks...
...Kyoto last week offered a case in point. There parents of children attending high school complained to the board of education that teachers were reading the Communist party newspaper Akahata (Red Flag) in their classrooms and forcing students to sing the Internationale. Children were urged to see a current crop of anti-U.S. movies, notably Hiroshima, a lurid hate movie about the atom bombing, which the Teachers Union itself produced and sponsored...
...movies will never catch up with Professor Abraham Pais of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. They have achieved three dimensions after a fashion, but Pais uses twice as many. Last week he told a convention of physicists in Kyoto, Japan that thinking in six dimensions may be necessary before man can understand the inner workings of matter. Said Pais...
Masakatsu Hamamoto, who describes himself as "the only Oriental in my class," traveled farthest to be at the reunion, coming from Tokyo, Japan. He is combining the trip with business, for the import and export firm of J. Osawa and Co., Ltd. of Tokyo and Kyoto. Asked how he was enjoying the mob meeting, he answered that he was enjoying it, but "it takes a while to go back 25 years; to put myself back that far. When I do, though, my classmates look pretty much the same as over to me--happy, confident, and yet serious when needs...