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...Nader may not seem the most likely hero for a country that is sometimes referred to as Japan, Inc. But during a five-day visit that ended last week, he proved to be just about the most popular American guest since Babe Ruth. Invited by the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, Nader was lionized wherever he went. In return he made front-page news for his hosts. He lectured to S.R.O. crowds and held a sharp televised debate with a vice president of New Japan Steel on the subject of corporate spending to control pollution. He declared that one slum district...
...Biology. His mission: find out how many people perished. A quarter-century after the event (see ESSAY), no one yet knows how many Japanese died at Hiroshima. Estimates range from a low of 68,000 (by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) to a high of 280,000 (by Chugoku Shimbun, Hiroshima's most influential daily newspaper...
...associate fellows are: Hyuck Un Lew, Dong-A llbo (Seoul, Korea): Eddie B. Monteclaro. The Time (Manila, Philippines): Its no Sakane, Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo): and Theunissen Vosloo, Die Beeld, (Johannesburg, South Africa...
Though Japan's biggest daily, the Asahi Shimbun, has suggested that the country be renamed "Kindergarten Nippon," not all the fads are frivolous. Theater and concert performances are usually S.R.O., especially if the bill is Western...
...Peking has an estimated 100 nuclear devices, including hydrogen bombs, but it is only now developing and testing the medium-range missiles needed to deliver them. Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun reported that the Chinese had conducted an underground nuclear test early last week; the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had no comment...