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Kawabata is well aware of life's burdens. He was born in Osaka in 1899, and his father died when he was two. His mother died the following year, and he was placed in the care of his grandparents. By the time he was 16, they were dead as well...
...dancing at $2.22 per hour. The aim, explains Club Tokyo Manager Motoki Inoue, is "sex equality in this he-man's land." Nightly, merry widows in miniskirts and portly housewives in kimonos turn up where the boys are. Some come in for the evening from as far as Osaka on the 125-m.p.h. bullet train; nearly all are between 30 and 40 years old. A middle-aged maitre d' guides each first-timer to a host after discreetly asking her preference. Regular customers streak straight to their favorites. Says one fortyish matron: "My husband leaves me alone with...
What might have been the most innovative building ever to grace an international exposition will not open at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan, two years from now. The United States Pavilion, a spherical, 130-ft. air structure commissioned last October by the U.S. Information Agency, is the casualty of a $6,000,000 congressional cut in appropriations for the exhibit. Expo Chief Architect Kenzo Tange calls it "an incalculable loss that will hopelessly upset Expo's overall plans...
...currently working on ceramic murals for the Barcelona air port and for a West Berlin broadcasting center. He is also preparing a poster for the 1972 Olympics, and will meet this week with Japanese representatives to discuss a "laugh room" for the 1970 World's Fair at Osaka, which he envisions as a place where visitors can amuse themselves with Miró ceramic grotesques, a fountain and Miró images on Japanese screens...
...these are part of a merger fever that is running through the Japanese industrial establishment. Shozo Hotta, head of Osaka's big Sumitomo Bank, says: "There is no doubt that a full-scale reorganization of business is now in progress...