Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese thrust at the Aleutians. This week the base was to play a far different role in Japanese-American relations. According to the prepared script, a gleaming Japan Air Lines DC-8 jet swoops down at night for a refueling stop on its 7,700-mile flight from Tokyo to Copenhagen. Out steps no less a personage than Emperor Hirohito, 70, the first reigning member of his ancient dynasty to set foot outside the homeland, en route to Europe for an 18-day visit. Waiting to greet the Emperor during his 100-minute stopover is no less a figure than...
Japan's presence overhangs the forthcoming Nixon visit to China; Peking is concerned about the U.S.'s future relations with "militaristic" Japan, while Tokyo is concerned that in its new fascination with China, the U.S. might downgrade Japan as its principal partner in Asia. Above all, at the IMF meeting in Washington this week, Japan is playing a key role in the showdown between the U.S. and its trade partners over trade and money policies...
...itinerary. Never have a U.S. President and a Japanese Emperor met in the 117 years since Commodore Matthew Perry's fleet of U.S. "black ships" opened feudal Japan to the West. Dwight Eisenhower nearly made it to Japan in 1960, but massive demonstrations by anti-American students in Tokyo forced Ike to turn back. Initially, the plans for the Emperor's tour called for no presidential appearance at Anchorage. Tentatively, Mrs. Nixon or Julie and David Eisenhower were being considered to meet the royal couple; even Vice President Agnew was a possibility, despite his famous "Fat Jap" remark made during...
...later, when the President proposed tough monetary policies and import surcharge taxes that will seriously affect the Japanese economy, Sato was only given ten minutes' advance notice. Discussing the double-barreled blow recently at ceremonies opening the new Japan House in New York City, Professor Jun Eto of the Tokyo Institute of Technology said: "It was almost as if the black ships had reappeared off the coast of Japan." The Japanese described Nixon's twin action as an ofuku binta?the forehand-backhand slap in the face that imperial army officers administered to erring soldiers before...
...Champion Jack Kramer pronounced "a new superstar." Serene Smasher. Stan Smith, a lanky, mustachioed blond, became the second American in 16 years to win the U.S. title.* At 24, and playing the best tennis of his career, he has defeated most of the world's top players. In Tokyo in December, he knocked off both Laver and Rosewall to win the Grand Prix Masters. Two months ago in London, he bested Newcombe to win the Queen's Club Open, then came within a few shots of beating him again two weeks later in a furious five-set finals...