Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crowds of howling marchers descended last week on the Tokyo headquarters of the giant Marubeni Corp. (1975 sales: $19 billion). Millions of dollars worth of contracts with local governments were canceled because of public outrage. The children of Marubeni's 8,000 employees have been jeered by schoolmates because their fathers work for "the bad, bad company...
...that the stay in Moscow had a "tightening" effect upon the family, different from the effect of living elsewhere. The Schecters lived in a foreign environment before--Steve was born in Japan, and the family had lived there for several years while his father was Time bureau chief in Tokyo. The Schecters, Steve says, couldn't immerse themselves in Japanese society and attend Japanese schools because "there was almost a racial problem. We just didn't fit in." The children attended American schools in Japan and led basically Western-style lives...
...true that Samuel Huntington's essay was "rejected" last year by the Trilateral Commission for being "too anti-democratic." The essay was debated at the Tokyo meeting of the Commission, but was subsequently published by the Trilateral Commission...
...offices and homes in search of evidence of wrongdoing. No. 1 target was the home of Yoshio Kodama, the 65-year-old ultranationalist who was allegedly paid more than $7 million of the $12 million of payola handed out in Japan by Lockheed. Investigators from the national tax agency, Tokyo police and the Public Prosecutor's office struck at 9 a.m. While Kodama lay ashen-faced and ailing-he is recuperating from a stroke-the probers combed every room for potentially incriminating documents...
...Harvard allowed three specimens to be exhibited in Tokyo. At that time, Japan had a Harvard exhibit and requested the glass flowers as part of the art section...