Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese are apprehensive that Moscow will seek to use favorable agreements with the U.S. or West Germany to pressure Tokyo into more favorable terms in the joint exploitation and development of Siberian gas and oil. The Russians are seeking $1 billion in credits from Tokyo for the 2,000mile Irkutsk-to-Nakhodka oil pipeline...
...Communist surge-one Tokyo daily calls it a "sonic boom"-is as sudden as it is startling. When Tanaka, supposedly at the peak of his popularity, called an election last fall, he discovered that the chief gainer was not his own Liberal Democratic Party but the Communists, who raised their representation in the Diet's 491-seat lower chamber from 14 to 39 (with another guaranteed vote from a left-wing ally). With a party membership of only 300,000, the Communists had attracted 5,500,000 votes, 10.5% of all ballots cast. Gains in local elections have been...
...present, one of the wonders of the world. Erratic and (when coping with Western art) often bizarre in taste, Japanese collectors have become the Texans of the Far East, splurging up to 2000% more than real market value on second-rate Chagalls and Modiglianis, and giving the still embryonic Tokyo market an estimated gross of $1 billion a year on paintings alone. No wonder, then, that Tokyo has attracted a number of big Western dealers, including the most formidable of all-Marlborough Fine...
Yukio Mishima completed his tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, one November morning in 1970. Then he dressed himself in the somewhat Grau-starkian uniform of his private army, the Shield Society, and led a group of young right-wing followers to a military headquarters in western Tokyo. There, in a violent and extravagantly eccentric display of the artist engage, he broke into the commander's office, harangued some mocking soldiers from a balcony about the disgraces of fading Japanese imperial tradition, withdrew and committed harakiri. A companion ritually lopped off the head of Japan's most celebrated postwar...
Masao Maruyama, professor of Political Science at the University of Tokyo, a Doctor of Laws...