Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tokyo, Japanese businessmen saw a hidden meaning in the fact that some of the U.S. team members had corporate ties, especially their leader, Graham Steenhoven, a Chrysler personnel supervisor. Convinced that Steenhoven carried secret orders to clinch a business deal with Peking, Japanese automen telexed their U.S. offices to find out everything possible about him. Told that he was not listed among Chrysler's top executives, they cabled again: "Impossible, look harder...
...Foreign Ministry. Most had dropped the practice in recent years, assuming it a futile exercise. One of the few to renew their visa requests was NBC's John Rich, who left Shanghai just ahead of Mao's forces in 1949, and has been China watching from Tokyo since 1962. Rich sent off what he called his "umpteenth cable," routinely requesting permission to enter China. Associated Press Tokyo Bureau Chief Henry Hartzenbusch did the same on behalf of John Roderick, who interviewed Mao when he was a guerrilla fighter in Northern China during the 1940s, and has been...
Approval of visas for Rich, 53, and Roderick, 56, set off a stampede. The Red-run China Travel Service, which issues visas in Hong Kong when Peking approves, was suddenly swamped. From Tokyo, United Press International's Al Kaff desperately tried to telephone Peking for a visa to match A.P.'s coup. To his surprise, he got through to the Foreign Ministry, only to be told politely that no more approvals were being issued for the moment. U.P.I, had to settle for stringer copy and telephoned reports from the U.S. table tennis players...
Opening the Door. In addition to Rich and Roderick, NBC's Tokyo Operations Manager lack Reynolds was also admitted, along with a two-man Japanese camera-sound crew. From Hong Kong, LIFE'S British-born John Saar and German-born Freelance Photographer Frank Fischbeck were given visas, as was Tillman Durdin, 64, of the New York Times, another old China hand who covered the Sino-Japanese War from Shanghai in the late 1930s and was the Times's Nanking bureau chief in 1948. Rich, Roderick and Durdin all applied for permission to open permanent bureaus in Peking...
...much as $1 billion worth of business with Peking this year. For this privilege, a delegation of top Japanese businessmen must make a yearly pilgrimage to Peking to sign, along with a trade agreement, a communique denouncing their own government. This year's "annual humiliation," as the Tokyo press calls it, contained a new section excoriating Japanese militarism...