Word: osaka
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...only because at 30,000 ft. they have few alternatives. But Japan Air Lines thinks its in-flight cuisine is so good that it can draw diners at ground level. In a novel promotion, JAL has opened its own restaurant, complete with a genuine cabin crew. Customers at the Osaka restaurant pay as much as $75 apiece to savor such in-flight specialties as flounder steamed in wine and red snapper stuffed with crayfish. To whet their appetite for travel, JAL has patrons enter a replica of a Boeing 767 cabin to watch a 5-min. videotape that highlights...
...fact, discrimination is declining, but a reluctance to deal with Koreans persists. Earlier this month, an agricultural credit cooperative in Kawasaki, outside Tokyo, apologized in a national newspaper for refusing a job application from a Korean. When a couple house hunting in Osaka acknowledged that they were Korean, all the 24 real estate agents they visited told them they would face discrimination: sure enough, at half the rentals they looked into, their application was rejected...
...movies to be shown on screens the size of six-story buildings. The first Solido film, a largely computer-generated extravaganza called Echoes of the Sun that was co-produced by the Japanese firm Fujitsu, opened last week at the Fujitsu Pavilion at Expo '90, an international fair in Osaka. Showgoers queued up for a chance to park themselves in front of a huge wraparound screen, strap on a pair of battery-powered goggles and enter a startlingly realistic 3-D world...
...morning after the theft, there were outbursts of fantasy about a supergang of ultraprofessionals, specialists in pinching masterpieces for some Dr. No in a remote art bunker outside Osaka, Bogota or Geneva. Even the museum's director, Anne Hawley, suggested that the robbers had been following a "hit list" given them by a mastermind collector. But it seems unlikely. Apart from a Greek plutocrat who tried, and failed, to commission some heavies to lift a Raphael from a museum in Budapest in 1983, no trace of this glamorous fiction has ever been found in real life. This was more like...
...buttress the yen, the Bank of Japan was trying to prevent an outbreak of inflation. Consumer prices are rising at a relatively modest 3% annual rate, but the official index fails to provide an accurate measure of many worrisome signs. Residential land prices in the booming city of Osaka rose 56% last year. So far in 1990, hotel rates have risen 9%, and the price of a bottle of Kirin beer is up 6.7%. Petroleum prices also rose last year, no small matter for a country that imports nearly...