Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boarded the Spirit of '76 after sharing tea and sympathy with Emperor Hirohito in Alaska last month, President Nixon gave U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Armin Meyer a laconic description of a large problem. When it comes to trouble between the U.S. and Japan, said the President, "The code word is 'textiles...
...code word was still the same last week when U.S. Ambassador-at-Large David Kennedy and Kakuei Tanaka, head of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), met in Tokyo to initial an agreement severely restricting Japanese textile sales to the U.S. Exports of synthetic garments and cloth will be permitted to rise only 5% and exports of woolens only 1% annually for the next three years. Even that limit may not be reached, because the pact also contains strict item-by-item regulation of 18 specific categories of products; it allows the Japanese almost no freedom...
...agreement will wipe out some jobs, and even though the Tokyo government stands ready to provide $700 million to buy up surplus spindles and outdated machinery, Japanese textile manufacturers are not mollified. Last week they organized rallies throughout Japan eclipsing the anti-import rallies staged earlier in the U.S. MITI experts estimate that Japan's textile sales to the U.S. will drop to $530 million a year, from a recent high rate of some $560 million-to say nothing of the $750 million that might have been reached without restrictions. However drastic, that reduction will not save many jobs...
While some workers may have benefited from their opportunity to batter surrogate employers or fellow employees, not all Japanese mental health experts agree that the self-control room is a good idea. Dr. Akira Omi, director of Tokyo's Comprehensive Health Care Institute, believes that such relief from tension is only temporary and could generate more, rather than less tension among workers. "The important thing for us is to start our cure from a more basic level," he says, perhaps by giving workers more leisure time at home. Of prime importance is the easing of what Omi calls Japan...
...plans for a Phantom-fighter missile and radar systems from an American G.I. for $555. Then, with Kobayashi's help, they confronted his contact, who had identified himself only as "Ed" but proved to be Lieut. Colonel Lev Konokov, assistant military and air attache at the Soviet embassy in Tokyo...