Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese Emperor Hirohito's arrival at Honolulu International Airport last week probably left many viewers across the U.S. wondering momentarily whether they had heard the anchor man right. Was it Hawaii, the final leg of the Emperor's U.S. tour-or was the royal couple back in Tokyo? After all, practically all of the smiling and handshaking officials greeting Hirohito and Empress Nagako seemed to be Japanese. And so they were: Americans of Japanese ancestry. Few mainlanders realize the extent to which AJ.A.s, as they are known in Hawaii, have flourished in the islands and now dominate their...
...Americans, whom he praised at one point for "withstanding many difficulties" in the U.S. At week's end the imperial couple flew on to Hawaii, where they planned to spend three days touring and resting before they board their jet this week for the long ride home to Tokyo...
Some collections are more private than others, and for several hundred years, the art collection of the Japanese imperial household has been one of the least accessible in the world. Very few commoners, and even fewer foreigners, have entered the precincts within the moated palace in the center of Tokyo where it is kept. Although items from the imperial collections have gone on loan to Japanese museums, a representative selection has never been shown. But when Emperor Hirohito makes his visit to the U.S. next month, he will be the first Japanese-monarch to set foot on American soil...
...quite prepared it for the influx of hundreds of oil-related companies (300 have operations there) and thousands of oil workers from around the world, mainly the U.S. Last week 20,000 oil people were in town, including 7,000 visitors from as far away as Houston and Tokyo, for "Offshore Europe 75," a $6 million exhibition of oil technology...
...take as many trains as possible from London to Tokyo-including a few spur lines of the moment-and then back again? This notion would no doubt horrify the hapless U.S. rail commuter and send him reeling back to the bar car. Yet in late 1973 Novelist Paul Theroux 35, spent four months chugging over just such an odyssey. Surprisingly, he not only survived but entertainingly tells the tale...