Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crusty George Haines?who cast an appraising eye at Spitz's first few performances and predicted: "He'll probably be the best swimmer in the world." That kind of praise was not given lightly; among Haines' stable of champions was Don Schollander, who won four gold medals at Tokyo in 1964. Mark, then 14, joined the club that year, and immediately became a formidable rival of Schollander, who was four years his senior. In 1966, showing early promise as a distance swimmer, Spitz came within .2 seconds of breaking the world record in the 1,500-yd. freestyle and qualified...
...foreign manufactured and consumer goods are still high. The average Japanese tariffs on finished consumer goods have been lowered from a prohibitive 28% in 1961 to 12% now-still far above the average of 7.7% maintained by most other industrial nations. In the past eight years, Tokyo has cut from 155 to 33 the number of quotas that it maintains on imports, but it still tightly limits the inflow of such items as tobacco, rice, wheat and computers...
...Jane Fonda, the "Tokyo Rose" of the Viet Nam War, should be punished for her recent "pilgrimage" to Hanoi...
...relentless work ethic of the Japanese is an awesome force to contemplate-even in Japan. The Tokyo government, fearing that frequent complaints from foreign competitors whom the Japanese outhustle might help stir demands for another revaluation of the yen, is now trying to persuade the nation's employees to work fewer hours and take more holidays. The Labor Ministry and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry have extended the campaign to bosses by fining supervisors who insist on working holidays and their normal days off. The fines range from $3.25 to $6.50 for each violation-a much larger...
...ease the U.S.-Japanese trade imbalance will be high on the agenda when President Nixon and Premier Tanaka meet in Hawaii late this month. Westerners commonly believe that Japan has built its towering trade surplus because its workers are selflessly willing to toil for sweatshop wages. But TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel argues that this is not the real reason for Japan's success. The high productivity of Japan's modern, well-automated plants is a much more important factor...