Word: toho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem of alcoholism among women. What is known is that 42% of Japanese women-a rise of 18% from eight years ago-drink "occasionally." Japanese women, in fact, are becoming alcoholics faster than their menfolk. "Most women alcoholics are kitchen drinkers," says Yoko Shibata, a professor of medicine at Toho University. "With husbands at work and children in school, they drink out of loneliness and become addicted in six years, compared with ten years for men." Shibata adds that Japanese women tend to become manic-depressive, which only reinforces their habit...
...remarkable movie is the result of an ingenious union of science and cinematography achieved by Dr. Motoyuki Hayashi, head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Tokyo's Toho University School of Medicine. Using advanced diagnostic instruments and time-lapse photography, Hayashi spent two years and $55,000 working in the university's laboratories and clinics to produce his masterpiece. His key tool was the culdoscope, invented in 1942 by Dr. Albert Decker, who is now with New York's Fertility Research Foundation. The instrument is a 12-in.-long tube, about the diameter...