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Veiled Apprehensions. If 1970 is a year that Sato views with veiled apprehensions, 1968 is one that he awaits with eagerness. Next year will mark the centennial of the Meiji Restoration, the year that Japan broke out of its feudal, introspective cocoon and entered the real world. Since that time, the four islands of Nippon have moved from an era of swordplay and armor to one of supertankers and transistors...
...neither looked nor acted warlike. From a gentle, somewhat toothy, thin-chested little boy, he grew into a gentle, somewhat toothy, thin-chested little man, who loved nothing better than to go splashing around for specimens for his marine-biology collection. Unlike his bold and high-living grandfather, Emperor Meiji, who used to select his bed partner by dropping a silk handkerchief in front of a court concubine, Hirohito became a happy family man and refused to take a concubine, even after his Empress gave him four daughters in a row (the fifth child...
...found its major thrill in watching whales cavort through the clear, blue waters of the bay. But by 1720 Tokyo had attained a population of a million-making it the largest city in the pre-Industrial Revolution world, and whale-watching gave way to more active pursuits. With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Tokyo came into its own. It assumed the status of seat of government, as well as its new name, which means simply Eastern Capital. It has dwelt for nearly two decades beneath a cloud of dust that hid its expansion-a trebling growth that took the city...
...bringing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx and Lefty O'Doul to the Orient for a barnstorming tour. An ultranationalist fanatic later hefted a broadsword and hacked a 16-in. scar into the left side of his head for permitting foreigners like the Bambino to desecrate sacred Meiji Stadium, but Shoriki went on to form Japan's first professional baseball league. In the early '50s he popularized television by planting 220 receivers in key public areas, soon had so many sponsors clamoring for broadcast time that he turned a profit the very first year. Despite gales...
Premature Genro. Almost all of Ed Reischauer's life has been a preparation for his present task. He is the son of a Presbyterian missionary who taught philosophy for 25 years at Tokyo's big Meiji Gakuin University and, with his wife, founded Japan's first school for deaf-mutes. Asked why he did not become a missionary, Reischauer grins...