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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impulse of a forceful individual but by a process of consensus. The process can be timeconsuming, but not always. One result is that fads are epidemic. Paris fashions and the latest rock beats reach Tokyo almost as quickly as they reach New York. The current singing sensation is Osamu Minagawa, a Tokyo six-year-old whose recording of something called Kuro Neko No Tango (Black Cat Tango) has sold 2,000.000 records, mostly on the basis of his imitation of a mewing cat. Baseball has been booming since Babe Ruth's visit 35 years ago, but now there are also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Toward the Japanese Century | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

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