Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...qualifications of an eligible boy friend in a cynical cliché: "lye tsuki, car tsuki, baba nuki" (with a house, with a car, without an old lady). "To our old folks, all this proves shocking, depressing and downright exasperating," observes Professor Soichi Nasu, a sociologist at Tokyo's Chuo University, who specializes in the problems of old age. "Just like their ancestors, they had anticipated companionship and support from their children, only to discover that the foundation had crumbled...
...with their children, particularly in rural areas, many others have been shunted into bleak housing projects or crowded nursing homes. "Both my sons have one-room homes and are married," explains Mrs. Take Kikuchi, a diminutive widow of 70, who lives in a nursing home on the outskirts of Tokyo. "I shuttled endlessly between them, but at last the message was so deafening that I had to leave them and come here." Adds Kotaro Uchida, 88, a retired Tokyo printer: "My son after the war told me that this thing transplanted from America called democracy meant everybody for himself...
Though the problem of Japan's aged still ranks low in priority, government officials have recently begun to take steps to alleviate the situation. Earlier this year, for example, Tokyo Governor Ryokichi Minobe launched a corps of volunteers to act as counselors for older people living alone. The biggest problem remains money. Since most firms have a mandatory retirement age of 55, middle-aged workers are faced with finding other means of support for 15 to 20 years. There is no Social Security in the American sense. National annuities and corporate pensions cover a limited number of workers...
...were unable to refuel in mid-air on a bombing run to Viet Nam because of weather conditions in the western Pacific. They were diverted to Okinawa's Kadena A.F.B., where the big bombers were based until last year. Aware of Japanese sensitivity, the U.S. embassy in Tokyo alerted Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda about the new flight plan of the B-52s; thus Fukuda was able to break the news of an "unavoidable emergency" that forced the planes to land on Okinawa for a four-hour refueling stop. Nevertheless, a government spokesman agreed with Socialist critics in the Diet...
TOBACCO. Cigarettes, which can be brought back to the U.S. in "reasonable" quantities, are priced lowest at the duty-free shops in Shannon, Johannesburg and Tokyo ($2.40 per carton). Elsewhere they cost 25? to $1 more. Caution: locally manufactured versions of many U.S. brands are sold in parts of Europe and Africa. To some Americans they do not taste the same as their regular smokes. The point of manufacture is printed on each carton...