Word: shibuya
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...easier in Japan because we are a monoracial society." These secondary remarks mollified no one. Declared Japanese-American Congressman Robert Matsui of California: "Mr. Nakasone's explanation is almost as outrageous . . . as his original statement." At this point, some Japanese also rang in. "Our Prime Minister," said Professor Kennichi Shibuya, evaluation expert at Joetsu University of Education, "should never have opened his mouth on this question...
...same minefield. At week's end the Prime Minister backtracked completely, expressing a "heartfelt apology" through Ambassador Matsunaga, who read the statement on Capitol Hill. His words won a measure of forgiveness from Gray and Leland, thus perhaps defusing political and economic consequences of the affair. But as Professor Shibuya's blast indicated, the Prime Minister still had an earful coming from educators, who rated his remarks simplistic, if not downright wrong...
...shrines stand a stone's throw from each other in Tokyo's Shibuya district. One looks toward the past; the other embodies the present. The first, the Meiji memorial, a Shinto edifice of Japanese cypress embellished with gilded copper, is dedicated to Emperor Hirohito's grandfather. The other, which glints a deep azure in the sun, is the modernistic steel-and-glass headquarters of NHK, Japan's public broadcasting system, symbol of a national obsession: television...
...never believe it but I looked up your doll Akiko-man is she terrific. She finally admitted (next morning, haha) that she hasn't got another boyfriend. Those wild letters are turned out by a fantastic guy named Tokuji Sugaya in a love-letter shop in swinging old Shibuya who lets these gorgeous chicks talk for a while and then he sits down and writes notes to about ten or 20 G.I.s a day. He charges 300 yen a letter, and the clients are just the best I've ever seen...
...Fence Menders. With that, a curious sense of anticlimax swept Japan. Returning wearily to his home in suburban Shibuya, Kishi found it free of the yelling, snake-dancing mobs that have besieged it every day since May 20. Taking advantage of the calm, workmen were busy repairing Kishi's smashed gates and fences...