Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruling Liberal Democratic Party, whose popularity had eroded in the later years of Sato's 7½-year regime. Sato favored Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 67, for party president and Premier, and the L.D.P.'s brusque rejection of his protege at a convention in downtown Tokyo's big Hibiya Hall last week was the final shokku. Sato nearly wept as Fukuda was trounced by the upstart millionaire, 282 to 190, in a second-ballot runoff...
...hoarse baritone to his bumper-sticker name (which literally means "Sharp Prosperity Amid Paddies"). Tanaka was born in a rice-belt village, in Niigata prefecture, the son of a horse trader who had a financially fatal weakness for gambling. At 16, young Tanaka quit school and lit out for Tokyo, where for three years he ran errands for a contractor by day and studied the construction business by night. Tanaka's budding business career was briefly sidetracked when the Imperial Army drafted him and sent him to Manchuria. But he contracted pneumonia and was discharged a month before Pearl...
...Tanaka tells it, he is "a born peasant." It is true, as his daughter Makiko insists, that stray dogs are the only other creatures up and about in Tokyo's fashionable Mejiro neighborhood each day at 5:30 when Tanaka arises. Still, there is nothing humble about his house: a 24-room mansion surrounded by gardens and the putting green on which Tanaka tries to improve his 18-handicap golf. No other politician in Tokyo has anything to compare with Tanaka's spread, but he protests that he needs the space. "A politician," he says, "is like...
...Rounds. Asahi's exam was typical. Some 900 candidates turned out at Tokyo's Keio University to compete for about 30 openings. Many were trained in law, engineering, medicine and other fields, but all preferred journalism. "Curing sick people is meaningful," said a young medical student, "but reporting is just as valuable because it is treating the sickness of society...
...pass must then undergo an oral session with Asahi editors on a variety of news subjects to determine general comprehension and special interests. The 30 or so who survive will be shipped out to Asahi bureaus for a year or two of apprenticeship alongside veteran staffers before returning to Tokyo headquarters as full-fledged reporters...