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...girl climbing into the Ningen Sentakuki will emerge moments later -scrubbed clean by hot water, massaged by small rubber spheres that are churned by high-frequency sound, and dried by the heat of an infra-red lamp. But at $6,600, the "human washing machine" developed by Osaka's Sanyo Electric Co. is out of reach of all but the filthy rich...
...industrial growth, they have shortchanged themselves in public amenities. Says Economist Sadakazu Chikaraishi: "Only by persistently keeping down our infrastructure investments have we been able to keep our industrial production soaring." The extent and quality of Japanese roads, parks and housing are far below Western standards. In Tokyo and Osaka, and other overcrowded cities many workers live in fragile wooden shacks that are crammed together in foul narrow lanes. Fully 90% of Japanese houses do not have flush toilets...
...mounting casualty figures in Yokkaichi suggest the growing dangers of breathing Japanese air. The day that Seiichi died, Japan's second largest city, Osaka, issued its first smog alert. And within three days, in the smog-bound city of Kawasaki, the air claimed a new victim, Mrs. Natsuko Hojo, a 28-year-old mother of two children, whose death badly shocked the other victimized residents of the city...
Concern, outrage and protest are mounting among the Japanese almost as rapidly as the thickening air. According to a poll conducted by the Japanese government last year, 52 per cent of the residents in the Tokyo and Osaka metropolitan areas were convinced they suffer from the effects of pollution. And a third of those polled blamed the pollution on the weak measures taken by the central and local governments...
This strange activity, repeated daily at an Osaka plant of the giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., is actually a form of therapy provided by Board Chairman Konosuke Matsushita as a rather uncommon fringe benefit. In Matsushita's "self-control room," which has attracted thousands of workers, an employee can harmlessly work off his tension, frustration and rage...