Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uphold their ownership of the Senkakus as it has done in the past. Instead, Washington last month suggested that rival claims to the islands "should be settled by the parties themselves." What this means, the State Department insists, is merely that the Chinese should address their claims directly to Tokyo. Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato and many of his colleagues took the ambiguous message to mean that the U.S. was willing to sacrifice their interests if necessary because it did not want to offend Taipei or Peking...
...royal family descended from its divine status a generation ago, and now it cultivates a more mundane image. So there was no effort to disguise the triumphant glee with which seven-year-old Prince Aya, second son of Crown Prince Akihito, gripped his newest honor: a diploma from Tokyo's Gakushuin kindergarten...
...rage. One of the patients has had no rage attacks or seizures in more than three years, four have had only mild attacks, and one has apparently not improved; it is too early to assess the results in the other seven cases. Dr. Keiji Sano, head of neurosurgery at Tokyo University School of Medicine, uses a similar procedure on the hypothalamus. All of his patients were children with serious brain damage and uncontrollably violent behavior; out of 56, all but a few became relatively calm...
HELMUTH HOLTZ Tokyo...
Dewi Sukarno was dewy-eyed with chagrin at being "compelled to do a thing which is not at all elegant." That inelegant thing, said the Indonesian dictator's pretty widow, is to sue one top Tokyo newspaper, one news agency and two leading Japanese weeklies for "having created a false and damaging image about myself." For years on end, complained Dewi, "these publications have been brainwashing the Japanese people with all manner of imagined poison about me." The latest toxin: a suggestion that her fiance, a Spanish banker, was connected with the Mafia. "This really is too much...