Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loan of $30 million to Abu Dhabi, supposedly to build roads and hospitals. European banks had refused to make a similar loan because they feared that the money would really be used to finance the war against Israel. But the Japanese bankers, who are heavily influenced by the Tokyo government, evidently felt that they were in no position to refuse: Japan has to import nearly all its oil, 82% from the Middle East...
...Seoul, the police cordon around the nondescript house of Dae Jung Kim soundlessly evaporated. President Chung Hee Park's government declared that there was "no longer" any need to hold the controversial opposition leader under protective custody. For the first time since he was mysteriously abducted from a Tokyo hotel room 2½ months ago, Dae Jung Kim was free...
...with Kim was highly desirable. The abduction incident caused tremendous indignation in Japan, where officials are convinced that the affair was carried out by the South Korean CIA in flagrant violation of Japanese sovereignty. Since Japan is its No. 1 investor, South Korea would like to get back in Tokyo's good graces and resume the all-important annual ministerial conference that was postponed as a result of Kim's disappearance. At week's end, however, it was still uncertain whether Seoul's action would have much effect in Japan. Justice Minister Isaji Tanaka said that...
...Esaki, then a young researcher with the Sony Corp. in Tokyo, was working on semiconductors-crystalline substances that ordinarily are poor conductors of electricity unless impurities are added to them. After experimenting with various chemicals, Esaki was able to produce a sample with which he demonstrated that tunneling can occur in semiconductors-something that had been suspected but never proved. Esaki's tiny gadget, called a tunnel diode, quickly found use as a switching device in electronic applications, performing much faster than a vacuum tube or even a transistor...
Japan's Imperial Household Agency, which keeps a little list of royal dos and don'ts, was aghast. As her parents, Crown Prince Akihito, 39, and Princess Michiko, 39, left Tokyo's Togu Palace for a ten-day official tour of Spain, their daughter, Nori, 4, planted on her mother's cheek the first public Imperial kiss. While the royal family does occasionally come out from behind its chrysanthemum curtain-Empress Nagako was recently permitted to exhibit her water-colors-such decadent occidentalism as kissing in public was unprecedented. However, it proved catching: arriving in Madrid...