Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advance by the Foreign Ministers of the nine member nations, it brusquely warned Washington that the Nine would retaliate if the U.S. began collecting extra import duties on a wide variety of their products. It also intimated that the Community would walk out of the three-year-old Tokyo Round trade talks, thus scuttling any possibility for their successful conclusion. What could follow, Haferkamp wrote, would be "a trade war of considerable dimensions...
...Emperor Hirohito has treasured a memento of his trip: a Mickey Mouse wristwatch. Even on the most formal occasions, His Majesty has been observed wearing his Mickey Mouse. Thus there was dismay in the royal household when the trusty watch stopped ticking, and concerned palace chamberlains rushed it to Tokyo experts specializing in American timepieces. The diagnosis? A new battery was needed. Last week, his hands moving again, Mickey was reunited with Hirohito...
...foreign tourist, a species once limited to corporate tycoons and wandering rock stars, is abroad in the land. Direct flights from Tokyo to San Francisco are booked solid for the next three weeks, and the number of Japanese visitors to Las Vegas now runs to about 5,000 a month. In New York City, arriving Europeans want to see Times Square and Harlem and then fly south to Disney World. All this activity represents not just world prosperity but also the swooning collapse of the once almighty dollar, which has sunk 7% against the yen and 10.5% against the Swiss...
Nowhere has the dollar faded so badly as in Japan, where it has shrunk by 40% in a year. Confronted with a $2.50 can of beer, a $5 breakfast or a $30 minute-steak lunch, Americans beat a hasty retreat?"chuckling in amazement," says a shopkeeper on Tokyo's Ginza. Says a veteran tourist who is staying at Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, where the cheapest room for two is $80 a night: "It's just plain scandalous. I never thought I'd see the day when the greenback would turn into Mickey Mouse money. It really hurts my pride...
...team retired to study for their driver's licenses. But in short order, pools were filled with a new generation of water sprites, and America's junior high school swimming juggernaut splashed relentlessly on: five of seven gold medals in the Rome Games of 1960; six of eight at Tokyo in 1964; eleven of 14 in the 1968 Mexico City Olympiad; eight of 14 at Munich...