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...Hirohito remains haunted by the war that claimed the lives of 2.3 million Japanese soldiers and 800,000 civilians. As he told TIME in a rare interview in 1975, "The saddest thing in my reign was the Second World War." Some revisionists now say that the Emperor's melancholy reserve masks the spirit of a shrewd and scheming warmonger. Most historians, however, contend that in spite of, or indeed because of, his unassuming pacifism, the unworldly scholar was often unable to dominate his nation's ruthless army. In 1941, for example, Japan's leaders turned to Hirohito...
...long chafed under what he has perceived as a lack of first-rate computer research in his country. Twenty years ago, in a fit of pique at inflexible practices in Japan's Electrotechnical Laboratory, he walked off the job for two weeks. Such rash assertions of personality are rare in Japan, and Fuchi's individualism has captured the admiration of many of his peers. Stanford Computer Science Professor Edward Feigenbaum calls Fuchi "a type almost unheard of in the East, one of those who, by force of will, can make something happen out of nothing...
...police-box system is reflected in Japan's startlingly low crime statistics. In 1980 there were 1.4 murders per 100,000 people, against 10.2 per 100,000 in the U.S. The incidence of robbery was 1.9, compared with 234.5 in the U.S. gun-crimes of any kind are rare, in fact. Another reason: strict gun-control laws, which allow no civilian to own a gun except for hunting. Impressed with boxes, Japanese success, Singapore has installed police boxes, and San Francisco is studying the feasibility of adopting the system. Tokyo's Soeno thinks this is a Japanese development...
...first wave of 1983 travelers is already home, and they are mostly delighted by the hospitality, the bargains and the rare attractions they were offered. Ronald and Sandra Karp of Belmont, Mass., who spent their June vacation in Florence, Rome and Venice, were deeply impressed by "unbelievable" low-priced meals. After all the warnings they heard about purse snatchers, says Ronald, "we were paranoid by the time we got there. But the Italian people were warm and friendly, and nobody cheated us." Many returning tourists babble of the bargains to be had in European stores; on goods ranging from Armani...
...Today, says a Chinese official, the relationship is one of "rifles to rifles and artillery to artillery." Nowhere is that hostility more evident than along the 800-mile border between the two countries. TIME Peking Bureau Chief David Aikman was among a group of Western journalists who made a rare trip last week to that tense frontier. His report...