Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tanaka well knows, Sino-Japanese relations are the single most powerful issue in Japanese politics. Only last week, the Tokyo daily Asahi Shimbun published a poll showing that 39% of the Japanese population now rate China as Japan's top foreign policy priority, while the U.S., which had always led such polls before, dropped to second place with a 28% rating. If the Peking summit is successful, Tanaka may call a quick election, perhaps as early as next month, to add a public mandate to the Liberal Democratic Party vote that brought him the premiership last July, when longtime...
...kind of diplomatic crest. Though the Nixon economic and diplomatic shokkus of last summer are still fresh in Japanese memories, Tanaka managed to come away from his summit with the President in Honolulu last month with what looked like U.S. approval and support. Moscow has been actively courting Tokyo, and is pressing to begin work on a long-delayed peace treaty. Then there was China's decision to deal with Japan, after so many years of anti-Japanese vituperation. As one American diplomat in Tokyo puts it: "In the multipolar game, that's not a bad score...
...second International Predictors' Conference, like last year's first such get-together in Tokyo, also gave Asia's various astrologers, palmists, bamboo-stick readers and other diviners a chance to understand one another at last. "Fortunetellers are like physicians," Asano explained to TIME Correspondent S. Chang. "You might specialize in one branch, but you don't qualify as a professional unless you have a working knowledge of them all." Fortunetelling in fact is one of the more respected professions in Asia. Practitioners make up to $1,000 a month in Japan, and $500 in South Korea...
...event like the Munich murders casts shadows round the world, and a score of TIME Correspondents, from Tokyo to Houston, reported on various aspects of the tragedy. From Paris, William Rademaekers, chief European correspondent, flew to Bonn to cover West German government reaction and to coordinate coverage. European Correspondent David Tinnin, who had also been in Paris, and Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan, who had been attending the Leipzig Trade Fair in East Germany, rushed to Munich. There, together with Bonn Correspondent Gisela Bolte, one of TIME'S four-member Olympic staff, they worked their way through interviews...
...Society, an organization run by U.S. and French businessmen. In Japan, the Columbia Society of Yokohama lends Americans a helping hand with small loans and emergency cash. When visitors run afoul of local laws and regulations, embassy legal staffs are required to respond. But as an American resident in Tokyo puts it: "They don't break any track records going to the rescue...