Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Santas & Spenders. Last week in predominantly non-Christian Japan, Tokyo's big department stores vied with each other in hiring Santa Clauses and putting up Christmas trees. The streets were jammed with automobiles (twice as many as in 1954), and at Keio University, campus parking was restricted because of the increase in student-owned cars. In ten months the number of TV sets in Japan had increased from...
...Jean Sibelius is 90, and the anniversary is being observed in many cities of the world. Manhattan's Symphony of the Air gave an all-Sibelius concert under the direction of a Sibelius son-in-law, Jussi Jalas; London's Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic both scheduled Sibelius evenings; even Tokyo's NHK (radio) Symphony is going all-Sibelius for one performance...
This year, while U.S. toymakers clamored for higher tariffs to keep out Japanese imports (current share of U.S. toy sales: about 6%), Marx-provided Tokyo toymakers with the cash and know-how to turn out toys that he contracted to sell in the U.S. as well as in foreign markets such as South Africa. This Christmas Japanese toys make up 5% of the Marx line and include many items, e.g., a $2.98 remote-control model auto that Japanese toymakers can turn out with 10-an-hour labor for less than half as much as it would cost to produce...
...bomb (TIME, Dec. 5) descended on its neighbors. The Dutch army reported a "high content of radioactive substance" over The Netherlands; West German scientists spoke of "an appreciable increase in radiation," and Paris' Municipal Hygiene Laboratory said that radioactivity over the city increased eight to nine times. From Tokyo came reports that rain which fell on the island of Kyushu contained 29,800 conts of radioactive particles per liter, compared with a norm of 20 to 30, and with 5,400 during last spring's U.S. tests in Nevada. Some of the radioactive particles fell during snowfalls...
Camphor balls and chrysanthemums mingled their odors in stately Meiji Memorial Hall last week as eager bridegrooms in rented cutaways thronged Tokyo's biggest marriage center to claim their kimonoed brides. In the corridors couples stood ten and twelve deep, waiting to go through the sake-drinking ceremony known as three-times-three-is-nine. Between marriages, the blue-and-white-robed Shinto priests, whose duty it is to provide suitable flute music, raced to washrooms to soak their aching fingers in hot water...