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Welcome to the latest of Japan's pleasure domes, born of a 1992 decree that the industrious people of the islands must work harder at leisure, in order to make their country not only an economic superpower but also a seikatsu taikoku -- a life-style superpower. The government has vowed to improve working conditions and cut hours in the office 9.5% by 1996. The enforcement of leisure time, however, is likely to leave many Japanese puzzled. In a recent survey of Japanese, more than 40% said they wouldn't know what to do with themselves if they had a month...
Opening the Diet last week, frock-coated Emperor Hirohito pleaded for taibo seikatsu-austerity living. Two days later, foxy old Premier Shigeru Yoshida explained what the austerity is for: to check Japan's ominous inflation, and, by stern cuts in government civil spending, to make room in Yoshida's trillion-yen ($2,780,000,000) budget for Japan's burgeoning rearmament...
Said Tokuzo lida, 41, bookstore owner: "Yoshida now calls for taibo seikatsu, but most of us are already living on the bare minimum." Then he added, with wistful pride: "Still, it's a long time since we had an air force...
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