Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before he left Tokyo on an eleven-day good-will tour of five Southeast Asian capitals, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka was aware of the smoldering resentment in the area of his country's overweening economic power. He knew that the abrasive aggressiveness of Japanese businessmen had earned them a reputation as "the ugly Americans of Asia." He realized also that bitter memories lingered of Japanese cruelties during World War II. And he had been warned that there would be demonstrations. But nothing prepared him for the enraged outburst of the thousands of shouting and jeering Thai students...
...screen clean; later, after the supervisor has left, the computer can reach into its memory and pick up the game exactly where it left off. Nor are Americans or Britons the only ones addicted. Gardner has gotten inquiries about Life from as far off as Moscow, New Delhi and Tokyo...
...Japan's foreign-currency reserves, already dwindling at the rate of nearly $1 billion a month, and reduce the country's ability to pay for imported food and such vital raw materials as coal and lumber. The prospect of increased supplies of Arab oil has caused the Tokyo government to postpone until Jan. 10 a decision on conservation measures aimed at reducing Japanese energy consumption by 20%. But anticipation of having to pay heavily for the oil is keeping those plans alive...
...nervous tic afflicting the Tokyo grade school girl was so severe that her entire body shook every time she twitched. When she was finally brought to Tokyo Psychiatrist Soichi Hakozaki, the diagnosis was surprisingly simple. The girl was lefthanded, and her mother had been trying to make her use her right hand by binding the left with tape. Two days after mom's therapy was stopped, the tic disappeared...
Throughout Japan, thousands of supporters have written to Hakozaki offering thanks and encouragement. Bolstered by the response, Hakozaki is carrying the fight to new fronts as well. He has persuaded several Tokyo department stores to stock specially designed scissors, golf clubs and tools for lefthanders. Now at work on a second book on the subject, Hakozaki is also designing a special manual for the art of brush writing, which poses particular problems for lefthanded schoolchildren. Though Hakozaki sees a "long uphill battle" ahead for his movement, there are indications that the prejudice against lefthanders is beginning to ease. One sign...