Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing so, Tokyo agreed to Peking's demand that the treaty include a clause opposing "hegemony"-China's current code word for Moscow's expansionist (in the Chinese view) foreign policy...
Tense Visit. Significantly, the Japanese made the announcement hours after Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had concluded a tense official visit to Tokyo. During his stay, Gromyko had sternly warned the Japanese not to sign any peace treaty with Peking and certainly not one with an anti-hegemony clause in it. But the Japanese, for their part, were annoyed by Gromyko's refusal to return to Japan the four islands in the southern Kurile chain that the Soviets had seized at the end of the war in 1945. Riled by Moscow's unwillingness to settle the long-standing...
...transport developed by Britain and France at a cost of nearly $3 billion. Indeed, the sleek, needle-nosed aircraft can fly 1,400 m.p.h., twice the speed of sound. It cuts trans-atlantic air travel from seven hours to 3%, and can lower the time for a San Francisco-Tokyo run from 11% hours to seven. But the Concorde ads may be prematurely optimistic. The plane has not yet received permission to serve U.S. airports, and unless it does, Franco-British dreams of a new era in air travel may never get very far off the ground...
...South Korea. About 500,000 South Koreans have formed an organization to campaign for the repatriation of their countrymen; Seoul now beams a radio program to the Sakhalinese Koreans with messages and greetings from relatives and friends at home. In Japan a similar association was formed by suburban Tokyo Housewife Rei Mihara...
More important, 18 Japanese lawyers have taken up the case. They have sued their own government to accept its long-term responsibility. They have in effect asked that Tokyo not only approach Moscow through diplomatic channels, but also pay for transporting the refugees back to South Korea. The case goes to trial next month in Tokyo, and the lawyers hope that they may finally goad the government into taking action. "Only when our government accepts the responsibility of shipping these people back home can it once again begin talking about human rights," says Hiroshi Izumi, one of the 18 representing...