Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trip to Peking and by his economic policy, and those twin shocks have served to reinforce the arguments of Sato's critics that Japan should have a foreign policy more independent of the U.S. Even Sato's own Liberal Democratic Party is sharply divided over whether Tokyo should move immediately toward closer relations with Peking...
Last week, in the bloodiest of a long series of skirmishes over the building of Tokyo's new jetport at Narita, some 40 miles southeast of the capital, that code was violently broken. Nearly 5,000 riot police were on hand to help airport officials expropriate three parcels of farm land that were holding up the last stage of construction. The farmers were grimly determined to resist seizure of their ancestral tracts. So too were some 3,000 student activists...
...Doolittle, now 74, whose record of rule breaking includes acrobatics at low altitudes, landing at a closed airport and buzzing a New Jersey gun club, was awarded honorary membership in the Air Line Pilots Association. At the ceremonies, Airman Doolittle, who became a hero in the 1942 raid on Tokyo, swapped tales with Astronaut Frank Borman, and offered two definitions learned during his harrowing experiences in the skies: "Anxiety," said Doolittle, "is something generated by a feeling that you might not succeed. Fear is something else-that's what you feel when you're in an inextricable position...
...products, including soybeans, light aircraft and air conditioners. But he was adamant in rebuffing demands that the U.S. considers to be far more crucial. Most notably, Fukuda refused to consider an upward revaluation of the yen, which has risen about 6.5% -far less than the U.S. wants-since Tokyo reluctantly decided to float it against the dollar last month. He also suggested that U.S. manufacturers would benefit from "more aggressive salesmanship," and told Rogers that the surtax must be quickly rescinded, hinting that Tokyo might otherwise be forced to use "countermeasures...
...Tokyo imposes import quotas and other restrictions on 80 items, including tobacco, rice, wheat, electronic components and computers. Almost anybody who tries to sell to Japan has to put up with a tortuous process of securing bank-issued licenses and coping with health restrictions (common American food additives are banned) and petty labeling requirements (all figures must be in the metric system). Even more vexing to U.S. businessmen are the straitjacket rules on foreign investment. For example, outsiders are still forbidden to own more than 50% of practically any Japanese firm. These barriers have held U.S. business investment in Japan...