Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raised carving knives and hacked off the little fingers of their left hands as a grisly sign of their anger against Japan. Wrapped in a blood-soaked flag, the severed pinkies were intended for the Japanese ambassador for transmission to Premier Kakuei Tanaka in Tokyo. Before delivery could be made, however, police rounded up the bloodied men and shipped them off to a hospital...
Ford also talked Middle East politics with visiting King Hussein of Jordan. The President scored heavily with the Japanese by swiftly picking up an original invitation to Nixon to visit Tokyo some time after the November elections-the first visit there by a U.S. President. Ford also pocketed a diplomatic IOU by agreeing to hold talks late next month with Japan's politically embattled Premier Kakuei Tanaka, who feels he can score points at home by negotiating with the new President. Ford extended a similar invitation to West Germany's new Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, who plans to come...
Back in 1964, former Japanese Premier Nobusuke Kishi needed a big favor: a guarantee that his brother Eisaku Sato would succeed ailing Hayato Ikeda as Premier. So Kishi paid a secret visit to a Tokyo businessman who obligingly made a few telephone calls to his friends. As a result, Sato's opponent hastily withdrew from the race, and Sato went on to become Japan's Premier for an unprecedented eight years...
...Sasakawa established the fascist Nationalist Masses Party and was elected to the lower house of the Diet during World War II, a political fling that landed him in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison for three years while U.S. officials tried unsuccessfully to prosecute him as a war criminal. Protesting his innocence, Sasakawa hired a big brass band to blast martial songs as he strode proudly into the clink. Behind bars, he became fast friends with Kishi and other imprisoned Japanese officials who later returned to power. He also got the idea of how to increase his fortune when an American...
South Korean-Japanese relations have been exacerbated by the stiff sentences of the two Japanese. They had already been strained as a result of the kidnaping of Kim Dae Jung, leader of South Korea's opposition party, from Tokyo last August by Park's secret police. Relations between the two countries have grown so uncertain that Japan, which provided 93% of South Korea's foreign investment last year, has hinted that its entire Korean policy is currently under review...