Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not have to be in our Saigon bureau or Nation section to keep busy. Hardly was martial law declared in South Korea last week when Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel was on his way. After getting a scarce seat on the night's last plane, he arrived in Seoul to find a midnight curfew, hotel rooms booked solid, and Korean officials reluctant to talk. Nickel persisted, and he produced this week's story in World...
...rapprochement between Tokyo and Peking two weeks ago was greeted in Taipei with a show of splendid in dignation. It meant, thundered the China News, nothing less than a return to a state of war between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. In recognizing the government on mainland China, the argument went, Japan had to break diplomatic ties with Tai wan and abrogate their 1952 peace trea ty, leaving relations between the two countries right back where they were before that year - in a state...
...Taiwan Foreign Ministry prudently concluded that the abrogation of the peace treaty did not automatically restore the state of war, but merely left Taiwan free to act as it chose. The Japanese ambassador in Taipei and Taiwan's man in Tokyo continued to fly their national flags. Consulates still issued visas, but now called them "travel permits." While both sides will eventually withdraw representatives (the Japanese estimate a three-to-six-month phase-out), they will retain strong "unofficial" ties. The reason is simple economics. Taiwan's industry, growing at the healthy rate of 10% a year, takes...
...mind that the Chinese got their Japanese guests to agree to a communique opposing attempts by other countries to "establish hegemony" in the Asia-Pacific area, a seeming rebuff to Moscow. But the Japanese are learning to play four-power politics too. Just before Premier Tanaka left for Peking, Tokyo coyly let it be known that he had written a warm letter to Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, emphasizing that Japan wanted to develop close relations with Russia, as well as with China...
...character of the master is closely modeled on the great Kitani Minoru, who actually played a similarly notable match in 1938-a match that Kawabata covered as a correspondent for Tokyo and Osaka newspapers. The Master of Go is thus not so much a novel as a fictionalized meditation on a real event. Kawabata deliberately dissipates the drama of the match by splintering its chronology. His narrative spirals through the book's events in ruminative glides and turns, ending where it began, with the master's death. Commonplace images-a girl on a bridge tossing bread to carp...