Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thugs have since been captured, and last week police also nailed the leader of the gang, a notorious hoodlum named Michio Sasaki, on charges of engaging in another current underworld practice: shaking down corporations. Sasaki, police contend, used his knowledge of an irregular loan to blackmail one of Tokyo's top banks for $16,000. According to the cops, Sasaki's shakedown of another corporation netted him nearly...
First came Tokyo's belated discovery that it had been excluded from the international guarantee conference on Viet Nam, which will convene in Paris Feb. 26. Hanoi, Japan was told, had objected to its participation because it had allowed the U.S. to use Japanese bases in connection with the war. Although that was certainly true, it struck the Japanese as a strange argument for the Americans to use in explaining the lack of any consultation on the matter. Japan had also made known its willingness to foot 50% of the $2 billion multinational reconstruction fund for Viet...
There is a measure of special pleading in that argument for the embattled Tanaka, whose honeymoon with the voters is clearly over (TIME, Jan. 29). Moreover, Washington feels rather strongly that Tokyo often does not seem to be listening to its problems. Whether true or not, there is no doubt that the diplomatic communications gap comes at an awkward time. It coincides ominously with the threat of a U.S. Japanese economic confrontation, as dramatized by the dollar crisis and the warnings of U.S. Trade Negotiator William D. Eberle that Congress might impose an import surcharge if Japan does...
...surgeon, Dr. Keijiro Suruga, who reported that it had succeeded in some cases. Mina Lewis did some research of her own and found a new article by Suruga in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery. Then, using her experience as a travel agent, she quickly arranged a family trip to Tokyo in early January...
William was crying and kicking two hours after surgery. The next day, he was not producing enough bile, so a medication which enhances bile flow, cholestyramine, was flown from the U.S. to Tokyo for him. The output of the baby's digestive tract by late January showed that he was producing bile and that it was being used in the metabolism of the special formula that he was receiving in addition to mother's milk. Last week he was strong enough to make the long trip home...