Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "What a Way to Run a Railroad." a report on supertrains around the world, including the 125-m.p.h. Tokyo-Osaka Express and San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit...
...gift). Tapping New York, said JAL President Shizuma Matsuo, "means the greatest aviation right in the world." In return, Japan gave up its unused rights to fly to Seattle and to carry West Coast passengers and cargo to Central and South America, will allow U.S. airlines to serve Osaka, Japan's second largest city and the site for the 1970 World's Fair. Japan also agreed to drop its recent restriction on U.S. all-cargo flights through Tokyo...
...willing to give the Japanese one route into New York and beyond, in return has asked for a route into the new Japanese airport at Osaka and other routes beyond Tokyo. It also wants the Japanese to give up one of their three West Coast stops and their unused rights to fly on to Latin America from Los Angeles. Japan is willing to open up Osaka and compromise on U.S. routes beyond Tokyo, but it flatly turns down all U.S. requests that it give up coastal landing rights or settle for only one New York route...
...Ginza. Though smaller than California in area, Japan, with 97 million inhabitants, is five times as populous. Moreover it is caught up in a vast migration from rural areas to cities, especially to the 350-mile-long megalopolis stretching from Tokyo to Osaka. The result is a spiraling real estate inflation that has lifted Japan's urban-land price index 670% since 1955, has made land in Japan the most expensive in the world. Frontage on the gilded Ginza shopping thoroughfare in central Tokyo sells for as much as $18 million per acre v. top prices of about...
Four dozen foreign banking branches and offices now do business from Washington state to the Virgin Islands, the great majority of them in New York and California. Osaka's Sumitomo Bank opened its sixth California branch last year, and the Bank of Tokyo of California recently started its eighth and ninth branches. In Manhattan, the international banking center, the British have opened four major branches, the Swiss three, the French and Israelis two each, and the Italians, Dutch, Lebanese and Pakistanis one apiece. Last month Brazil's Banco da Lavoura de Minas Gerais opened up in Manhattan...