Word: stampeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For years, Japan's political establishment has stamped out national leaders almost as uniformly as Japanese industry turns out transistors. The country's first ten postwar Premiers all reached power in their 60s or 70s, and most were equipped with identical attributes: samurai ancestries, diplomas from Tokyo University...
The accomplishments of bureaucracy affect individuals in wondrous ways -and nowhere more so than in Japan. Consider the case of Herbert Freidman, an American businessman living in Japan. One day last month, he climbed aboard a plane at Tokyo airport and flew off to Okinawa, dutifully surrendering to a customs...
Freidman as a result is caught in a bureaucratic mesh; until it is eventually settled, he is unable to travel because his passport is not in order. He thought at first of solving the impasse by flying to a nearby country and coming back into Japan officially. But, of course...
> An easy exit. Rather than questions at the end of the East German Autobahn, Danforth's passport was quickly stamped, and he was allowed to drive unhindered into West Germany.
History shows that lenient methods of handling this kind of contagion are bound to fail, Bejerot says. In Sweden, for example, light penalties for drug offenders have done nothing to curb addiction. In Japan, on the other hand, authorities stamped out an amphetamine epidemic after World War II by instituting...