Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across paddyfields, through mountains and over highways last week streaked the world's fastest long-haul train, slithering like an ivory worm along the 320 miles of rail between Tokyo and Osaka. For the first full test run of Japan's $1 billion New Tokaido Line, the super-express Hikari averaged 80 m.p.h. and often went as high as 125 m.p.h. Crowds waved and cheered, highway traffic stopped to watch, and planes of newsmen circled overhead. Japan was greeting not only a new rail service but a symbol of the nation's postwar industrial growth...
...million monorail from refurbished Haneda air port to downtown Tokyo Station are being closed. Partially completed elevated highways have cut the road time from airport to city to 40 minutes or so. The high-speed railway that will carry passengers the 300 miles from Tokyo to Osaka in three hours is ready to run-but company officials must figure out how to curb suicide-minded Nipponese who want to be among the first to fling themselves under the fascinating wheels...
This spring a "floating trade fair," consisting of 100 businessmen and 400 trade exhibits aboard the merchant ship Centaur, dropped anchor in Hong Kong, Manila, Bangkok, Osaka, Tokyo and Singapore, piped 90,000 visitors aboard and transacted $1,125,000 worth of business right on deck. Australia's enterprising businessmen miss few opportunities to mold their exports to their customers' specific habits and needs: in a wily and woolly coup in Thailand, they recently landed a large order for plastic sneakers by producing them in a shade of orange that matched the robes worn by the country...
...Tokyo's Osaka District Court last week, Judge Taneo Sawai brought the wholly avoidable 30-year feud to an end. Having previously warned Mrs. Murayama that any verdict was bound to go against her, the judge directed both sides to work out an amicable settlement. That meant that the five directors would stay. It also meant an end to Ofuji's meddling. And it probably meant that old Ryohei Murayama could relax at last with his ancestors...
...miles of the DEW line, which guards the North American continent against surprise attack. For eight years, the U.S. has been using Fuller domes to house its exhibits at global trade fairs; they have represented America in Warsaw, Casablanca, Istanbul, Kabul, Tunis, Lima, New Delhi, Accra, Bangkok, Tokyo, Osaka. The Russians were so impressed by the 200-ft.-diameter dome at the 1959 U.S. exhibit in Moscow that they bought it. "Mr. J. Buckingham Fuller must come to Russia and teach our engineers," garbled Premier Khrushchev...