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...years ago, when he was crown prince. Those six months in Europe influenced him profoundly; since then he has lived at home in Occidental style, sleeping in a bed instead of on a floor mat and wearing Western clothes. Last week his chamberlain brought news that Premier Eisaku Sato's Cabinet had approved Hirohito's plans for an 18-day European trip beginning next September-the first time a reigning Emperor will have left the country in the 2,631-year history of Japan's imperial household. Empress Nagako will go along on the visit to Copenhagen...
Before killing herself in 1969, Takako Nakamura wrote: "The pains gnaw at my body. I want to throw out my stomach and intestines." Read aloud to Japan's hushed Diet last month, those words moved Prime Minister Eisaku Sato to tears. Takako Nakamura has become a symbol of the tragic results of Japan's unchecked pollution...
Spirit and Suicide. Prime Minister Sato has ordered health checks on all workers in the more than 1,000 Japanese plants that use cadmium-a crucial step, since only a handful of those plants take adequate safety precautions. Last week health officials reported that cadmium has tainted much of the country's rice. Farmers around Takako's city of Annaka, for example, have been urged to stop raising wheat and Chinese cabbages; samples have been found to contain as much as 17.8 p.p.m. of cadmium...
...Kyoto, Nader sat down on the straw tatanri mat floor of a Japanese inn with leaders of Japan's fledgling consumers' union and composed a six-page open letter to Prime Minister Eisaku Sato suggesting that cars sold in Japan should have the same safety devices -seat belts, headrests, dual braking systems-that are put on models exported to the U.S. He also made the point that every time a Japanese company recalls its cars in the U.S.. it should be required to do so in Japan. The next day, Honda Motor Company recalled 63,000 cars...
...Manchukuo. In fact, the U.S. meant to exclude Manchukuo. Had that point been clear, Toland asserts, war would have been postponed-or avoided entirely. It was only in 1967, he says, that the surviving Japanese leaders learned what the Americans intended. "If we had only known!" said General Kenryo Sato, a Tojo adviser. "If you had said you recognized Manchukuo, we'd have accepted...