Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minor Tokyo bureaucrat, Senji Kataoka, 53, spends the week doing public relations chores for the Ministry of Agriculture. But every Sunday during the harvest season, he becomes an Oriental Quixote-a tireless crusader against the urban sprawl that is fast destroying Japan's rural beauty. Armed with three cameras, he mounts his Honda and chugs off to perform his duties as president (and sole member) of the Japan Scarecrow Institute. His mission: to save and celebrate scarecrows, "the silent critics of this country's devastating environmental disruptions...
...boutiques in the basement of the Tokyo Prince Hotel hired a hand last week whose references needed no checking. Mrs. Takako Shimazu, 31, the new "salon adviser," traces her lineage to no less a luminary than a sun; her father is Japan's Emperor Hirohito. The pretty ex-princess (who lost her title when she married a commoner) is not exactly a newcomer to the rat race. Ten years ago, she turned a fast yen as star of a deejay show on Tokyo radio called-not surprisingly-Princess Time...
...indirect costs of becoming the most productive nation in the world after the U.S. and U.S.S.R. One newspaper editorialized that G.N.P. "really means gross national pollution." Another paper investigated each of Japan's 46 prefectures and found that all but two suffer from kogai-environmental disruption. Cars in Tokyo cause an eye-stinging photochemical smog. Nearly every major city in Japan has its version of "Yokohama asthma," a wheezing caused by air pollution. Noxious industrial wastes wash around the bays of Tokyo, Osaka and Dokai in northern Kyushu. Amid the public outcry against kogai, a 15-year-old student...
...live in concentration camps. Some of the camps are near the major cities, but many are placed around American army bases to absorb the NLF mortar attacks. Saigon now has 2,800,000 people in it, making it the densest city in the world-twice as crowded as Tokyo...
...obvious reason: since they pay the world's highest wages, they have the nost to save by manufacturing offshore. They began by subcontracting work to locally owned firms in Japan and Western Europe, and are still expanding that practice. Ford Motor, for example, has signed up Tokyo Shibaura Electric to make most of the generators that will go into its 1971 models, and is dickering to have another Japanese firm, Dieel Kiki, supply many of the compressors needed in auto air-conditioning systems. Lately a growing number of American firms have gone further to set up their own component...