Word: miyako
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...link with Africa is all but lost. On the wall of the Fuso Trading Co. in downtown Tokyo is a photograph of a lone elephant standing in silhouette against a red sunset. "We don't know exactly what country the ivory originated from, very sorry," says company accountant Miyako Yoshida. Last year the company imported 4.5 tons of ivory from Singapore, of which 2.5 tons went for making piano keys. Once Yoshida and a customer saw a film in which an elephant was shot. She said they covered their eyes in horror...