Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think the Tokyo Giants are all "pureblood Japanese" [March 29]. Sadaharu Oh may be a Japanese citizen, but his father is Chinese and only his mother is Japanese...
...this week's cover story, the editors called on Nelan and correspondents in Singapore, Tokyo, Washington, Vienna, Geneva, London and elsewhere to report on all facets of the new turn in U.S.-Chinese relations. Reporter-Researcher Sara Medina, a six-year veteran of TIME'S China desk in New York, contributed additional insights; she returned from her latest trip to Hong Kong in February. The information gathered went to Clell Bryant, who wrote the story, and David Tinnin, who edited it. To achieve the proper mood, Tinnin led his crew through a spirited doubles session in the office...
...What role would China assume as a no longer isolated power? Would the Russians get mad? Could the U.S. start playing Peking against Moscow? (A dangerous but almost irresistible thought.) Would global geometry turn into a triangle of Washington, Moscow and Peking? Or into a quadrangle, counting Tokyo? Would China's attitude affect the Vietnamese war? Most of the answers could not possibly become clear for a long time, but the world experienced the refreshing breaking of a dreary stalemate. Even if this break might bring new risks, they seemed preferable to the old paralysis...
Chou En-lai is the guiding influence behind China's re-entry into the world scene. Unlike most other Chinese Communist leaders, Chou is sophisticated and widely traveled. He comes from a family of feudal gentry, was raised in Shanghai, had studied in Tokyo, Kyoto, Tientsin and Paris, and speaks French, fair English and some German. As Premier (since 1949) and Foreign Minister (from 1949 to 1958), he visited at least 29 different countries and maintained a constant dialogue with high-level foreign visitors to Peking. With a personality far more cosmopolitan than Mao's, Chou...
According to Petramina's General Sutowo, Japan now consumes one-half of Indonesia's oil, some 70 per cent of Indonesian oil exports. In late February, the Japanese entertained Sutowo in Tokyo, agreeing to a 30 per cent rise in price for Indonesian oil sold directly to Japan, in an apparent attempt to reduce dependency on foreign oil companies...