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Last week, TIME Correspondent Frank Gibney visited two Japanese cities-Osaka and Nagoya. His report...
...quarter of a century later, Hideyoshi's successor as shogun, arch-isolationist Tokugawa Ieyasu, built a stronghold at Nagoya, 100 miles northeast of Osaka, Ieyasu wanted neither conquest nor foreign trade; he clamped the lid on Japan, and his family kept it there for 300 years. Like Osaka, Nagoya grew up in the image of its maker. Nagoyans put classical poems, flower arrangements and the complex subtleties of the Japanese tea ceremony ahead of commerce and industry; they dislike to hustle; there is still a feeling that trade is somewhat vulgar...
...difference between Osaka and Nagoya goes straight to the heart of the Japanese character. The Japanese are a people with a split personality, and Osaka and Nagoya are extreme examples of their duality. The Japan of Osaka is progressive, militant, competent, rude. The Japan of Nagoya is hidebound, passive, polite and wary of outside influences...
...Beautiful Bombing. Nagoya, which suffered as much from wartime bombing as Osaka, is as different from Osaka as Boston's Back Bay is from Reno, Nev. Instead of Osaka's new houses, bustling factories, Nagoya boasts huge areas of rubble-littered ground and rotting weeds dotted with an occasional clapboard shack. The ruins of her factories, which Nagoyans had accepted reluctantly as part of the war, stretch...
...occasion was well worth the clapping. Earlier in the week General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters had formally authorized the reopening of stock exchanges in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, closed down since...