Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer one lives, the more shame one has to experience." The old Japanese saying was quoted by a Tokyo reader, Goro Hara, in a letter to the English-language Japan Times. To a degree almost incomprehensible to Westerners, Japanese last week were still caught up in shock, shame and rage over the massacre at Israel's Lod Airport by three young Japanese radicals...
...Japan this week on a less dramatic but still pressing mission: mending fences with the U.S.'s most important Asian ally. Ever since last summer, when Japan learned to its astonishment that Nixon's adviser had gone to Peking to arrange a presidential visit about which Tokyo had not even been informed, the Japanese have become increasingly convinced-rightly or wrongly-that some personal Kissinger bias has had a role in shaping what they see as a harsh and misguided new U.S. policy direction. Tokyo's pique (or paranoia) has only been exacerbated by the fact that...
Dear Dr. Kissinger, Just about everyone here in Tokyo will be relieved to finally see you step off that plane that seems to have become your second home. Still another postponement of your first visit to Japan since moving into the White House would harden the Japanese suspicion that you attach no urgency at all to the U.S.'s relations with the world's third economic power. Through Japan's photochemical smog, you'll be seeing a paradoxical country where islands of quiet and beauty coexist with urban sprawl, and where modernization has never meant Westernization...
Concert of Powers. One Japanese concern exceeds all others. Since the four other members of the President's concert of powers are already nuclear, the Japanese detect an implication that eventually they are to go nuclear as well. That prospect frightens Asia. It has also put Tokyo at a disadvantage with Peking, which has been able to make life extremely uncomfortable for Premier Eisaku Sato's government by playing on Asian fears of Japanese remilitarization. As Peking is aware, no one is more worried about nuclearization than the Japanese themselves. Such a step to them spells continued hostility...
CAMERAS. Prices are lowest in Tokyo's international airport at Haneda, but travelers to Japan would probably do better to make their purchase at one of the many camera stores in every big city, where the selection is much broader and prices almost the same. Sample prices at the airport: Nikkormat 35-mm. FTN with f-1.4 lens, $172. The same camera costs $268 at Amsterdam's Schiphol and $260 at Shannon, but it is still a bargain at either place compared with its $388 retail price...