Word: nagoya
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...Japan's auto plants, however, are marvels of design like the Volkswagen plant built two years ago in New Stanton, Pa., or some of the other new and redesigned American factories. The Toyota operations in Toyota City near Nagoya are noisy, dark and cramped. At 60 cars per hour, the assembly lines do not even approximate the blistering 100-car-an-hour pace once set by GM's Lordstown, Ohio, line. But the slower speeds allow workers more time for the job at hand, and as a result the parts fit snugly and the screws are tight. Each...
...posed China's main threat. contacts with the West would be useful in reducing the dangers from the Soviets and they suddenly became receptive to diplomatic, cultural, and economic ties with other industrial powers: Western Europe, the United States, and Japan. In 1971, following a ping pong tournament in Nagoya, the Chinese orchestrated an enticing opening for selected Americans, and within the year Kissinger was in Peking paving the way for the Nixon visit...
...Japanese culture from swordmaking to the tea ceremony. And the Nō theater, that elaborate and (to most non-Japanese) incomprehensibly subtle combination of masked mime, costume, song and dance, received its classical form under the Tokugawa aegis. The family collection, housed in the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya, is generally acknowledged to be the greatest private hoard of Japanese art in the world. In the area of Nō costumes, it is unsurpassable. The Japan Society show, which opened at Washington's National Gallery of Art in April and will travel to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort...
Heavens to Geppetto! Carlo Collodi's 1883 children's classic, The Adventures of Pinocchio, had incurred the wrath of citizens in the Japanese city of Nagoya. Calling themselves Pinokio Wo Arau Kai (Association to Wash Pinocchio), they demanded recall of 19 Japanese editions of the book available in stores and libraries. Their argument: Pinocchio stresses "discrimination against disabled unfortunates" and must not "be read by our children...
...York. When she put the idea to General Manager Schuyler Chapin two years ago, he replied: "Go away and don't bother me. That will cost millions." It did cost that, $2.5 million to be precise, but Hillyer found someone to pick up the tab: the Nagoya-based Chubu Nippon Broadcasting Co., which decided to sponsor the tour in honor of its 25th anniversary...