Word: shimoda
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...TRAVEL Shimoda, Japan: Where Barbarians Landed...
...TRAVEL Shimoda, Japan: Where Barbarians Landed...
...Fridays as penance, as distinct from the Japanese practice of eating it every day for pleasure. Even Kobe beef, on which every Japanese dotes when he can afford to, is a Western import. The first cow butchered in Japan died for the table of an American consul in Shimoda in the 1850s, and a monument has since been raised to it by the butchers' association of Japan. Before that, cattle were not eaten. The idea of eating beef was as strange as that of were not eaten. The idea of eating beef was as strange as that of eating...
...Hirohito about scuba diving; attending a Kabuki play; lunching with 125 top celebrities of Japan, including Home Run King Sadaharu Oh, at the Imperial Palace. Jittery police cleared the streets of spectators for most of the President's trips around Tokyo, but Carter did journey to the port of Shimoda, where Commodore Perry's fleet called 125 years ago, for a "town meeting" with ordinary Japanese...
...holy land of Indiana, raised in the mystical hills east of Fort Wayne." So begins Illusions, the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Delacorte Press; $5.95), by the man who gave the world Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Richard Bach's latest whimsy is about an automobile mechanic named Donald Shimoda who barnstorms around the Midwest and preaches homilies. An old barnstormer himself, Bach used to dream of meeting just such a man to answer his questions like: "Why are we living?" Responding to his own questions, he has his character Shimoda explain that we are all "game-playing, fun-having creatures...