Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Today," reports TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel, "it is the majority view among political soothsayers in Tokyo that Tanaka will not last through the normal three-year term as leader." Members of his Liberal Democratic Party have begun to speak of Tanaka in the past tense. "Tanaka was good for the quick boost," one former minister told Nickel last week. "None of our Premiers who have started out with a big fanfare have ever lasted long...
...Communists plan to keep the Premier on the defensive. Presumably, they will try to goad Tanaka into disastrous faux pas. Presumably also they will needle him about his yeasty private business and personal interests; he has made questionable land deals and one Tokyo newspaper, the Mainichi Daily News, charged that some of those deals involved a former Tokyo geisha named Kazuko Tsuji, who is alleged to have been Tanaka's mistress and the mother of two of his children...
read the headline of a story on Ambassador Grew's allegations. A group of insidious Japanese had planned to assassinate him, and kill the great comedian as well during Grew's term in Tokyo in the mid-Thirties. At least Grew believed it, and the Service News believed Grew. Next month, Harvard awarded Grew the only honorary degree it gave...
...both quality and quantity. While Japanese technology and industry are flexible, high-energy enterprises, the medical establishment is rigidly oldfashioned, and specialized treatment is difficult to obtain. "Medicine is the forgotten aspect of our rapid progress," laments Dr. Hiroshi Kuroiwa, a gifted young surgeon who has recently returned to Tokyo after three years of specialty training in the U.S. "Things would be different if our medical system had been exposed to the same foreign competition as our business...
Whether in a big city or small town, the country's 69,000 private clinics are remarkably alike. In Tokyo, Dr. Takeshi Ito (not his real name), an internist who calls himself a child specialist, owns and runs a one-room clinic with a cubbyhole dispensary. Ito sees about 60 patients during each long clinic day, visiting a few bedridden patients at home in the afternoon. At night, relaxing with his hi-fi and a bottle of Scotch, Ito wonders aloud whether he can call himself "a true disciple of this noble science of medicine." He provides...