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...Reported by Karl Taro Greenfeld and Aixa M. Pascual/New York, Alison Jones/Raleigh and Adam Zagorin/Washington
This scene is emblematic of the world portrayed in Karl Taro Greenfeld's Speed Tribes (HarperCollins; 286 pages; $23), a fast and strutting view of a neon-lit capital that might be called Notes from the Tokyo Underground. In place of the kimonoed ladies and the men in gray flannel suits who form so much of our sense of Japan, Greenfeld pulls back the curtain on a much more colorful and disaffected group -- gangsters, good-time girls, gold-toothed bikers and punks. The economic boom of the '80s, in which Japan's assets grew 80% in just four years, produced...
...nearby islands of the South Pacific, by contrast, enterprising natives of the New Guinea highlands were clearing forests and using irrigation to cultivate yams, bananas and taro root. Coastal people were developing double-hulled ocean-going canoes and mastering the rudiments of navigation, which led to an explosion of interisland trade. The dominant traders, peoples known to archaeologists as the Lapita, who lived in the Bismarck archipelago, did a booming commerce in food, obsidian, seashells and elaborately stamped pottery from island to island, eventually venturing as far away as Fiji and Tonga...
...corporations about the boycott, Tokyo has officially called for its suspension. He also knew that several Japanese companies were already selling cars in Israel and that other Japanese enterprises would begin trading with Israel soon. In fact, Cuomo knew this all so well that in his conversation with Taro Nakayama, who was then the Foreign Minister, the Governor said he was "appreciative of" Japan's "changing attitude on the boycott...
Some Japanese officials are leaning toward using their military in disaster relief. Says Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama: "The Ground Self-Defense Force has many transport helicopters available, as well as technical units trained in disaster recovery operations. We should debate this." Yoshiaki Nemoto, a Japanese Red Cross official, agrees that the military, if forbidden to wage war abroad, could be used to better purpose. "The gulf war provided a rare chance for the Japanese to face the issue and make a step forward," says Nemoto. At present Tokyo tends to resist the idea as unrealistic. When the . world...