Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thugs. Both incidents point to a relatively new phenomenon in law-abiding Japan that has police seriously worried: the rapid growth and increasing boldness of Mafia-like crime syndicates. Japan boasts the lowest crime rate of any industrial nation (Tokyo's homicide rate is about one-tenth that of New York's, for instance, and robbery is almost nonexistent). But police estimate that the country now has 124,000 yakuza (good-for-nothings, as mobsters are commonly called), divided into some 2,900 gangs. A crackdown on these boryokudan (violence organizations) has become the top priority of Japan...
...boons of Chinese membership in the United Nations. that organization's annual Demographic Yearbook, published last week, was finally able to get its population statistics for the mainland's cities straight. For more than a decade it had only outdated figures from China, and consequently had listed Tokyo and New York as rivals for the title of world's largest city. In fact, as the Yearbook disclosed, that dubious honor now belongs to Shanghai, with a population, according to official figures, of 10,820,000. Tokyo is next with 8,841,000, followed by New York with...
...also happens to have an interest in Marlborough, a firm that -under the guidance of Frank Lloyd, a dealer of legendary if unloved astuteness-has in the past decade become the world's richest gallery complex, with main offices in New York, London and Rome, a branch in Tokyo and a network of holding companies in Liechtenstein. Fiat had agreed to design and build four air-conditioned "Artmobiles" equipped to carry shows all over the U.S. The American branch of Fiat was to give these to the Met as a public relations gesture. Though the Met officially denies...
...Head for $50,000-with the astounding guarantee that if it proved to be a fake (both Rousseau and Geldzahler doubted its authenticity) the Met should give $60,000 back to Marlborough. Presumably the extra $10,000 was for air fare, since Red Head promptly went to Tokyo, where an anonymous Japanese bought it for between...
...their products cheaper for foreigners to buy. But devaluation will also aggravate American inflation-how badly no one can yet tell-by pushing up the prices of imports. In addition, American travelers will have to spend more on foreign trips; for example, the price of a single room in Tokyo's Hotel Okura last week was $27.75, v. $24 the week before and $22 in late...