Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Japan, rather than Communist China, wins economic leadership of Southeast Asia. Yet six weeks ago, when a "private" Japanese delegation signed a $196 million trade pact with Red China. Kishi gave the deal his blessing. Nor did he boggle at the key condition extracted by Peking: establishment in Tokyo of a Chinese Communist trade mission with quasi-diplomatic privileges, including the right to fly Red China's five-star flag over its headquarters...
...others did boggle. Nationalist China called it the first step toward full diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Peking, and retaliated by slapping a boycott on Japanese goods, thereby trying to force Japan to choose between the chancy Red barter deal and its solid trade with Formosa ($149 million last year). And so began the battle of the flag...
Unfazed. heavy-lidded Nobusuke Kishi blandly assured Formosa that he did not intend to recognize Peking, and that, far from conceding that the Reds had a "right" to fly their flag in Tokyo, his government would "do its best" to dissuade them from doing so. But, shrugged Kishi, if Peking's representatives insisted, their flag would be entitled to Japanese police protection-not under the rights of diplomatic courtesy but under ordinary laws against trespass and property damage. Last week, reportedly after pressure from the U.S. State Department, warning of the economic and political consequences of a prolonged breach...
Japanese rockabilly began in Tokyo tearooms where, for 25?, a patron can have a cup of coffee and several hours of canned or live music. When it moved to the theaters. 50,000 caterwauling girls piled into the Nichigeki in seven days carrying box lunches of rice and seaweed. The Koma Theater drew bigger crowds with rockabilly than with the New York City Ballet. Four hours before the doors opened at the Kyoritsu teen-agers had formed in a queue three blocks long...
...disarmament conference in Washington, where the U.S. and Britain demanded a 10-10-6 naval ratio with Japan, the Japanese insisted that they would settle for no less than 10-10-7. But because Yardley was reading the Japanese secret cables from Tokyo, the U.S. confidently stood pat in the knowledge that the Japanese delegate would throw in his hand...