Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...management had offered only $22-the two sides now settled on a compromise $34 bringing the average Japanese railway worker's wage to about $365. By midafternoon most people had gone back to work. Transportation Minister Koshiro Niwa apologized to the people for all the inconvenience, and Tokyo's traffic returned to its normal state of guided confusion for another year...
...Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel, meanwhile, went to Guam to interview B-52 crews who have been raiding North Viet Nam. Vietnamization may have relieved American infantrymen of the heaviest fighting, but the war is now as grueling and dangerous as ever for flyers, sailors-and newsmen...
From Guam, TIME's Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel reports on one B-52's mission over North Viet...
...North Vietnamese are obviously eager to display their independence from Peking by courting the Japanese, who are regarded by the Chinese as capitalist imperialists. Hanoi had proposed that a political delegation be sent, headed by a deputy premier. Tokyo demurred, partly because it still recognizes Saigon as the legitimate government of Viet Nam, and also because it is reluctant to provoke Washington's wrath. Thus came the trade delegation, which will meet with Japanese political leaders, as well as with industrial tycoons. It is officially headed by the chief of the North Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce, Dang...
...Senkakus themselves, which are tiny, rocky and uninhabited, would seem to be an odd subject for such a dispute. But according to a recently published U.N. survey, they may well be surrounded by a vast offshore oilfield in which Tokyo, Peking and Taipei are all exceedingly interested...