Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irritated when Japanese civilians scrambled recklessly across the U.S. Army's Somagahara rifle range near Tokyo in search of scrap metal, G.I. William S. Girard one day last January decided to get tough. He shoved an expended cartridge into the grenade launcher on his rifle, slid a blank into the rifle, and fired in the general direction of five civilians 30 yards away. The cartridge hit a 46-year-old woman in the back and killed...
...Japanese government ordered its ambassador in London to file an expression of "strong regret" with the British, not forgetting to mention that Tokyo reserved full right to claim damages for any Japanese fishermen who may have been near by. Actually, the British testing area is twice as far from Japan as Bikini, but this did not stop thousands of Japanese students from rioting outside the British embassy in Tokyo...
...days after the bomb dropped, Harold Steele, the bewildered, bespectacled Quaker chicken farmer from the west of England who volunteered to face radioactive death in the area as a protest, arrived unheralded in Tokyo to learn from reporters that the blast had already gone-off. "I'm greatly disappointed," he said. "This trip has cost me my entire life savings...
Michiko shot to her present eminence by a maneuver familiar to Hollywood: posing in the seminude. The daughter of an Osaka metal-shop owner, she arrived in Tokyo when she was 15 seeking a singing career, but was bluntly told by the first recording company she went to that she could not sing. Nevertheless, she got singing engagements in U.S. Army camps, picked up a smattering of English, and went on the nightclub circuit. There Photographer Tateyuki Nakamura spotted her, persuaded her to pose in black silk stockings and little else. The photograph, when it appeared in a magazine...
JAPANESE IMPORT CRISIS is becoming so severe that foreign-exchange reserves will be exhausted in six months if importing continues at present pace. To brake imports, Bank of Japan hiked discount rate from 7.7% to 8.4%. Reacting to boost, Tokyo stock market suffered biggest drop since Korean war ended...