Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of his life John Scott has been a sort of intellectual Johnny Appleseed, gathering seeds of discussion and understanding in one place, planting them in another. In 1931 he left the University of Wisconsin to study Russian Communism firsthand. Since, he has been a newsman in Moscow, Tokyo and other world capitals, a war correspondent, our first postwar Berlin bureau chief and a writer in New York, before joining my staff as a lecturer. The harvest of these years has been four books: the first, Behind the Urals, was published in 1942, and the fourth...
Twenty-six years ago, in Tokyo's Central Railroad Station, a nationalist fanatic named Yoshiaki Sagoya shot Japan's liberal Premier, "Lion" Hamaguchi. Last week bull-necked Yoshiaki Sagoya was back doing business at his old stand. In protest at Prime Minister Ichiro Hato-yama's avowed intention of flying to Moscow to negotiate a World War II peace treaty with the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Sept. 24), Sagoya and the khaki-clad toughs of his "National Protection Society" staged a mock funeral service for the ailing, 73-year-old Premier. On top of an altar, flanked by artificial...
...ready to welcome Premier Hatoyama to Moscow for the purpose of signing a pact normalizing relations between the two nations. Russia agrees to postpone discussion of the territorial issue . . ." This made it fairly certain that a deal would go through, that Russia will soon have an embassy in Tokyo, and that Japan, eleven years after defeat, will get a seat in the U.N. (four times vetoed by the U.S.S.R.). Federenko's answer seemed to blast all hope of keeping Hatoyama safe in Tokyo. As he got his weekly haircut, the Premier remarked cheerfully: "I probably will need only...
...spending the party's money "merrymaking with geisha girls," in the disguise of "Mr. P., a company owner." Shida had bought himself expensive clothes, donned black-rimmed glasses, grown a big mustache. Sometimes for three nights running he would drink four to six quarts of sake at a Tokyo geisha house called the Big Bamboo. He lavished so much money on his favorite geisha and attendant guests that the owner was able to add a brand-new two-story annex. Wrote Shinso's reporter: "I looked around at the rich artistic material used in building the annex...
Under the terms of Hatoyama's proposal, the Russians would get a Tokyo embassy as a prestige place and as a legal base for propaganda and espionage activities. Their payments would be three cheap concessions: release of some 11,175 Japanese P.W.s still held eleven years after V-J day, formal agreement to let the Japanese fish in Russian waters, and support of Japan's application for U.N. membership. Convinced that the U.S.S.R. would not refuse so attractive an offer, Hatoyama last week confidently booked air passage to Moscow for the end of this month. "Mr. Hatoyama," said...