Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...build political and economic influence. The Japanese government proposes to start a $2 billion rehabilitation fund for both North and South. Japan would pay about half of that amount and invite contributions from other countries, notably the U.S., the Soviet Union, China, Britain and France. Beginning almost immediately, the Tokyo government would ship to Viet Nam tons of medical supplies and other emergency...
...year's Smithsonian monetary realignments, during which the yen was revalued against the dollar by more (16.89%) than any other currency. Japanese businessmen want to avoid another such jolt at all costs. As a result Japan's trading partners, who have long sought to reason and cajole Tokyo into removing some of its formidable trade barriers, are finding that a mere hint of revaluation can work small wonders...
...piles up giant surpluses in dealings with the rest of the world, and refuses to do anything to reduce them (TIME, Oct. 9). Japanese newspapers interpreted his speech as an attempt to push Japan into revaluing the yen, and their screaming headlines touched off a brief panic on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Result: the Japanese government took prompt action to bring in more imports and give less encouragement to exporters...
...oblivion 1st, with a wistful but optimistic view of the future. Her strongest link with the future, although the successfully hiden it from both children and husband alike, in a sure fore knowledge of her own approaching death. This is to be her first and last visit to Tokyo. But the never lets her intuition become evident; she cannot lower herself by making her children feel guilty, though they have sinned against their parents by failing to show them the devotion traditionally due one's elders...
...weave by his story. The family never speaks of "dying"; the term they use is "not living". The old man speaks of his wife as if she were yet alive and watching over him at the remove of a distance much smaller than the trainride from Shimonoseki to Tokyo...