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...notable byproduct of Japan's swift rise to economic superpower status is a mildly bizarre cult of the price tag. Some of the best customers of art galleries on Madison Avenue and the Faubourg St. Honoré these days are dealers from Tokyo or Osaka, their pockets stuffed with yen, who are willing to pay astronomical sums for French impressionist paintings. Japanese buyers are equally conspicuous at the yearling auctions in Saratoga and Deauville, bidding handsomely for the best thoroughbreds. In fact, the Japanese seem to have supplanted the stereotype Texans as the world's most eager status...
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...tongue, Blasingame at 41 is now enjoying his greatest success-Oriental or Occidental. His Nankai Hawks of Osaka, a last-place team four years ago, won the first half of the 1973 split season and are assured of a place in the Pacific League's playoff...
...being thrust upon the Japanese moving into Hawaii: local residents often resent and fear a sudden pronounced rise in takeovers by foreigners. Some Hawaiians are deeply concerned, even though their own state government invited the splurge by spending $1,000,000 at Japan's Expo '70 in Osaka to promote investment in the islands...
...Osaka (617 Concord Ave.) is not to be missed for Japanese finger lickin' sensations, but watch your prices because you're liable to go overboard. Its sushi, or raw fish, is worth the splurge--they say it's better than what Japan itself would give you. The teppanyaki or sukiyaki might be less strange to taste buds geared only to the Western way. The Korean dishes at Matsuya (1768a Mass Ave.) pull sore second, but that's no insult. The Tempura Hut (444 Portland St.) is for the Westerners at heart only...