Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan was admitted to the U.N. These ambitions achieved, he could go-and whoever was chosen by his party, the ruling Liberal-Democrats, would become the country's Prime Minister. In symbolic anticipation of a decision about to be cast, the artificial trees in the lobby at Tokyo's Sankei Kaikan theater were festooned with large paper dice. The red curtain rose to reveal the elders of the party wearing white rosettes and seated onstage, with a huge rising sun as a backdrop...
Twice-Flunked Liberal. U.S. officials in Tokyo are inclined to regard Ishibashi as "anti-American," but then, all three conservative candidates, with an eye on Japan's postwar generation of new voters and its rising Socialist tide, have been talking up the need of a "readjustment" of U.S.-Japanese relations...
Last week friends hailed MacArthur's appointment to succeed Ambassador John Allison as "a natural." But the feeling was not universal; commented Tokyo's second biggest newspaper, Mainichi Shimbun, "The name MacArthur will not make the man's job any easier." The job: to follow up Allison's "civilianizing" of post-occupation Japanese-American relations. Chief problems: the future status of U.S. military bases in Japan, growing demands for return of such prewar Japanese possessions as Okinawa and the Bonin Islands, Japan's desire for more trade with Communist China...
...about youngster in modern Japan, 24-year-old Shintaro Ishihara has every right to act as spokesman for his generation. Not yet a year out of college, he is already known as a composer, painter, a movie star whose haircut and clothes are ardently aped by teen-agers from Tokyo to Nagasaki, and the most sensationally successful author in the nation, with four bestselling novels to his credit. Beyond all this, Ishihara is the idol and godhead of a flamboyant and far-flung cult whose youthful excesses have caused Japan's oldsters to shake their heads in horror...
...doing their best to imitate the book. Mostly the offspring of well-heeled parents, Ishihara's characters and Ishihara's fans alike spend their days and nights in unconscious parody of another lost generation, pouring endless drinks down gullets apparently lined with copper, necking for hours in Tokyo "jazz coffee shops" thoughtfully equipped with high-partitioned booths, helling around Japan's cities and beach resorts in imported MGs or local-made Toyopets...