Word: nikko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes back centuries to a bygone world of tiny, meticulously tilled farms, tranquil lotus ponds and brilliantly colored shrines and temples. The finest temples are at Kyoto, Nara, where the 1,349-year-old Horyuji Temple is said to be the world's oldest wooden building, and at Nikko, where the brilliant Toshogu Shrine is set in a fairyland of rugged mountains, waterfalls and virgin forests. Tourists also like to drive along the Izu Peninsula, with its tiny fishing villages and bubbling hot springs, visit Hakone for the best view of snow-capped Fujiyama, and stop at Toba, near...
...part ownership in scores of companies. Japan now has seven such booming trusts, which charge only 2½% in commission, and pay 7% interest. So far, they have sold $70 million worth of securities to workers, housewives, farmers, even labor unionists. (One of the biggest trusts, operated by Nikko Securities Co., reports good sales among prostitutes, who have large savings after seven years of occupation...