Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ally, was hardest hit by the dramatic American policy reversals regarding China and international finance. Relations between the U.S. and Japan had deteriorated to such an extent that the State Department made frantic preparations for the meeting. Up to the last minute, experts were scrutinizing embassy reports from Tokyo, preparing papers and debating issues. Telephone lines between Washington and San Clemente hummed constantly...
...bearings-either because there are no suitable substitutes or because the Japanese prices will still be lower than competitors'. The export sales that are "considerably" threatened-or worse -says the ministry, include trucks, electric machinery, aluminum, toys, radios and tires. Even so, stock prices also rose on the Tokyo exchange, indicating that experts do not expect severe business reverses in Japan...
...world's third mightiest industrial power is reining in its breakneck drive for economic growth. Many industrialists and economists have joined with Matsushita, himself the symbol of Japan's high-growth ideology, in calling for a slower, steadier pace. Kazutaka Kikawada, chairman of the Tokyo Electric Power Co., complains that Japan's growth drive has led to a "flippant materialism," destroyed much of the country's beauty, and created environmental devastation that threatens to lead to social disruptions. Adds Professor Jun Eto of the Tokyo Institute of Technology: "The production cult is being deflated...
...Japanese are disenchanted with runaway expansion largely because they blame it for causing intolerable pollution. Great palls of deadly, eye-smarting smog from factory smokestacks settle over the cities and their increasingly restive inhabitants. Last week pollution protesters staged a lie-in at government offices in Tokyo. Most were victims of pollution-induced cadmium poisoning, a painful bone complaint that the Japanese call itai itai (ouch ouch). One day recently, Tokyo's Haneda Airport was so socked in by pollution that planes had to be diverted to another city. Industrial waste and sludge have also poisoned the streams...
...stressing industrial growth, they have shortchanged themselves in public amenities. Says Economist Sadakazu Chikaraishi: "Only by persistently keeping down our infrastructure investments have we been able to keep our industrial production soaring." The extent and quality of Japanese roads, parks and housing are far below Western standards. In Tokyo and Osaka, and other overcrowded cities many workers live in fragile wooden shacks that are crammed together in foul narrow lanes. Fully 90% of Japanese houses do not have flush toilets...