Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have the Chinese decided to deal with Tokyo now, having scornfully rebuffed Japanese advances for years? The chief consideration may well be fear of Russia. Peking may have begun to fret that the gradual U.S. withdrawal from Asia, and China's longstanding anti-Japanese policy, might simply push Tokyo closer to Moscow, which recently increased Russian military strength along China's border from 47 to 50 divisions. The Chinese also need Japanese technology to help modernize their economy. Then there is the age factor: now that Mao is pushing 79, Chou, who is 74, could be hurrying...
...than $760 million in Japanese goods annually (China's imports from Japan totaled $578 million last year, and they are not expected to rise dramatically even if diplomatic relations are established). But it remains to be seen how tough Peking intends to be about its longtime insistence that Tokyo must flatly renounce its peace treaty with Taiwan. Though the Japanese seem to be in a strong bargaining position-Peking needs a rapprochement more than Tokyo does-they may well have to yield a great deal if they are to achieve their objective: immediate diplomatic recognition and an embassy...
...charge of Japan's first major exercise in independent diplomacy since the war is a wheeling-dealing real estate speculator and career politician who has almost no experience in international diplomacy. In the 15 years since hard-driving Kakuei Tanaka first reached Cabinet-level posts in Tokyo, he has been abroad only eight times, and then only to Korea, the U.S. and Western Europe. His one previous trip to China came in 1938, when he was shipped off to Manchuria as a young Imperial Army draftee. Tanaka's military career ended several months later when he contracted pneumonia...
...land development. Traditional Japanese diplomats have been heard to grumble that their blunt-spoken new boss is "very un-Japanese." But popular magazines revere him as a reincarnation of Taiko, a peasant-bred warrior who rose to the top samurai rank in the 16th century. To Western journalists in Tokyo, who are used to dealing with faceless and unfathomable bureaucrats, Tanaka is a godsend, the earthy Khrushchev of Japanese politics...
...occasion, Tanaka's frankness verges on the coarse. In his 1966 autobiography, which he hands out to visitors to the sprawling Tokyo mansion where he lives with his wife Hanako, he tells of being offered a geisha to sleep with one night toward the end of the war, during his contractor days. Tanaka chivalrously sent her home because she looked "too fragile," but the memory of the encounter, he writes, grows "increasingly more vivid" with time. At times, Tanaka indulges in sentimentality. On the long flight to Honolulu last month, he dashed off several sayings in Chinese calligraphy, which...