Word: ryutaro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japan's interi (intellectuals). Today, at 65, he is a ponderous speaker but a man of steadying weight in a nation ready to take off in many directions. He reads "middlebrow" samurai novels (the Japanese equivalent of westerns), and watches with benevolence the careers of his two sons, Ryutaro, 38, an oil-company executive, and Shinji, 34, who works for the Nippon Kokan steel company. To the looks of a Kabuki actor, Sato adds a very calculating eye for his own position and a buoyant sense of balance when it comes to his party...
...they were appalled. "Women and women's stockings, you know, are the things that have become strong in this country since the war," muttered one association official, understandably declining to be identified. Though 500 sento owners staged a sit-in outside the office of Tokyo's Governor Ryutaro Azuma, they seemed downright delighted the next day when he forced them to call off the strike, "for the sake of sanitation among the citizenry." The governor conceded that approval of the rate increases just possibly could be speeded up, but the important thing was clearly to get the sento...
Arriving in Manhattan for a five-day visit, Tokyo's Governor Ryutaro Azuma, 67, was greeted by Mayor Robert Wagner, paid a brief call on Japan's onetime military governor, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, still recuperating from a recent prostate operation (TIME, April 4). Asked if Manhattan and Tokyo have anything in common, Azuma, a man of few English words, tersely replied: "Yes. Traffic jams." While touring the city, Azuma's wife Teruko, 62 and mother of five, stumped her guides by mischievously inquiring: "Who owns the Statue of Liberty-New York or New Jersey...