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...Vladivostok, headquarters of the Soviet Pacific Fleet. As the Japanese press closely followed the drama, defense officials in Tokyo quietly pondered a couple of minor mysteries: What was the warship, of a type capable of launching nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, doing only 56 miles off Japan's westerly Oki Island? And what had gone wrong? The Soviets were volunteering no answers...
...sprawling stores and cubbyhole shops festooned with brightly colored banners proclaiming bargains, customers can buy almost any type of vacuum cleaner or videocassette recorder, refrigerator or radio, humidifier or home computer. Familiar brands such as Sony and Sharp are surrounded by scores of less familiar names: Nakamichi, Denon and Oki. At one store can be found 205 varieties of stereo headphones, 100 different color television sets and 75 kinds of record turntables. While some stores are relatively sedate, others flash lights, blast out rock music and station salesmen on the sidewalk to pitch for patrons like French Quarter strip-club...
...says Toshihiko Yano, formerly a top policymaker at Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, is that they have ample room to grow at home and do not "want to take the time and trouble involved in exports. They have got to make the effort." Echoes Yasuo Oki, a spokesman for Mitsubishi, Japan's largest trading house: "American businessmen come in here, throw up their hands at the differences in doing business in this country and go home muttering about the closed market...
This mingling of passion and cool detachment completely infuses both Oki's love for Otoko, and its later reverberations...
...PREVIOUS works, Kawabata creates here an entire symbolic world through the use of colors. The painting that had brought Oki to visit Otoko was of a red flower...