Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TOKYO, April 15--Red China made clear today it plans to start communizing Tibet soon. "Tibet is not an independent state," said the official Peiping People's Daily...
...reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, I journeyed to Tokyo just after the war with a group of newsmen, and even then we could sense the profound postwar change coming over the Japanese people. What we could not see in our limited visit we learned directly from General MacArthur, who invited us to lunch at the American embassy. The farseeing general predicted to us then-in 1946-that the Japanese traditional way of life would soon become a thing of the past. How true his prediction was, and how well TIME has shown this in its pages...
Like an eggbeater marching through a bowl of Wheaties, Air Force Lieut. Colonel Charles H. Platt Jr. led his wife and four children through the crowded, throbbing Military Air Transport Service terminal at suburban Tokyo's Tachikawa Airport, largest military airbase in Japan. MATS clerks straightened, for Colonel Platt was notable local brass: he was commanding officer of the MATS terminal. Off on a 14-day leave in Hawaii, Platt called for booking-six seats-on the Pacific Express, a 41-passenger C-118 due out within minutes on a U.S.-bound milk...
...Quake. It was no accident that this repressive law was modified in the year of the great Tokyo earthquake. A current Japanese joke says it took an earthquake to start the emancipation of women, and the atom bomb to set it going again. The 1923 temblor destroyed 60% of the city, killed 143,000 people and ruined many of Tokyo's upper and middle classes. In its aftermath, the educated daughters of these families (education for women dates from the Meiji Restoration in the 19th century) discarded their kimonos, bobbed their hair, donned Western dress and became sales clerks...
Michiko was sent to Tokyo's Sacred Heart School, where the names of the girls read like a roll call of Japan's wealthiest families, instead of to the Gakushuin (Peers' School), which is reserved mainly for the descendants of the blue-blooded kazoku families. Sacred Heart was a congenial place, long on over-politeness. Comments a Sacred Heart graduate: "The aim was to shape us all into spotless and expensive pieces of jewelry, and Michiko got the same treatment as the rest." Though the school was Roman Catholic, Michiko remained a Buddhist...