Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clearest memories is trying to register the birth of my oldest daughter with the local ward office in Tokyo," he says. "They just couldn't understand that all babies born in Japan aren't born to Japanese parents...
...hoard scarce supplies of land and such commodities as rice, wool, silk and soybeans. Prices of all these things have risen, and though the trading houses deny the charges, consumer tempers have gone up, too. Recently, carpenters who were laid off because of a lack of lumber demonstrated in Tokyo, brandishing placards that read: DOWN WITH SPECULATING TRADERS...
...Though Tokyo and Peking have recently exchanged ambassadors, the Japanese are discovering that it is not so easy to switch alliances. Take air travel, for instance. Premier Tanaka wants to conclude an aviation agreement with the mainland, but Peking has indicated that he can have no such agreement unless Japan curtails air ties with Taiwan. A solution will not be easy. Besides being lucrative (37 Japan Air Lines flights a week, as well as 21 China Airlines flights), the Taiwan connection is backed by many members of Tanaka's own Liberal Democratic Party. Already angered by the cutting...
...Every important Japanese city from Kagoshima to Kushiro has its own throbbing neon-lit district of pubs, clubs and geisha houses that cater to the expense-account set. On Tokyo's Ginza alone, well-oiled businessmen drop some $500 million yearly at more than 1,000 bars and restaurants. Prices effectively screen out patrons who have only their own money to spend: dinner for two at Osaka's Yamato-ya restaurant costs about $230, while four Scotch-and-waters at a select Tokyo bar can run to $120, including a tray of hors d'oeuvres and fruit...
...subsidiary began producing magnets in March at a $2,000,000 plant in Edmore, Mich., that it owns jointly with General Electric. Mitsubishi, whose San Angelo, Tex., subsidiary plant has been turning out executive jets since 1967, recently acquired a factory in Moonachie, N.J., to make synthetic leather. The Tokyo government is encouraging the push. This year it began giving Japanese investors a 30% tax write-off on new U.S. ventures...