Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shaping of new relationships between the European Economic Community and the U.S. But the Europeans were at best lukewarm toward Tanaka's visions of a "more balanced triangle." In Paris, the first stop on Tanaka's itinerary, Georges Pompidou agreed to send the Mona Lisa to Tokyo and to cooperate with Japan in a uranium enrichment project, but at the same time, he let it be known that Tanaka's dream of a larger political role for Japan in the West simply did not interest him. To many in Japan, it seemed that Tanaka...
...images of the world of illusion." Ukiyo-e, which embodied a shift away from the stony feudal pietas of Japan's ancestral samurai culture, have a style and a subject matter that could only have taken hold in a bustling, sophisticated city like 18th century Edo (later called Tokyo). In Edo, a new class of merchants and craftsmen had risen. Like any bunch of Sony executives whooping it up in an Akasaka nightclub, the members of this bourgeoisie took their pleasures as they came and liked art to reflect them...
...peddle the plastic food containers at home demonstration "parties." In order to maintain the evangelical zeal of the distributors, Dart regularly holds sales jubilees at which the most successful of the housewife-saleswomen are awarded such prizes as new cars, microwave ovens and all-expense trips to London and Tokyo with their husbands. Of late, Dart has found the seemingly all-American formula quite as valuable overseas: Tupperware has been expanding abroad, and per capita sales in France now surpass those...
Japan is more dependent than any other country on foreign oil. How does Japan hope to safeguard her oil supply? In an article last spring, Masao Sakisaka, president of the Institute of Energy Economics in Tokyo, advocated "package deals" as an answer to Japan's oil problem...
Reischauer will accept the gift from Nissan in Tokyo later this month...