Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better part of two decades for the Business section's special report this week on Japanese trade practices and growing protectionist sentiment in the U.S. A native of Philadelphia, Reingold has followed Japan's rising economic star ever since 1969, when he was first assigned to TIME's Tokyo bureau as bureau chief. Back then, he recalls, most of what he knew about Japan was "World War II propaganda...
...Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond, Anita Pratap Beijing: Sandra Burton Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
...week's end traders pushed the dollar to a 2 1/2-year high of 1.977 West German marks. That pierced the 1.90-mark ceiling that the U.S. and its trading partners reportedly agreed to in a 1987 accord. In Tokyo the dollar's high reached 139.88 yen, its loftiest level in 16 months and just below the 140-yen ceiling that the allies set. The U.S. and its partners are determined to do what they can to slam on the brakes -- but whether their efforts would slow down the runaway dollar remained an open question...
...Korea. That's good, but not if it leads to intimidation of the South's burgeoning democracy. Japan, unsure about its new global political role, will almost certainly be next to receive the full brunt of the Gorbachev charm offensive. That's bad only if it dilutes the Washington-Tokyo relationship and forces the U.S. into a less central role in Asia...
...future appears bright for schools like T.M.G. In 1990 Keio University of Tokyo plans to open Keio Gijuki New York Gakuin, a school for grades 9 through 12, on the campus of Manhattanville College, north of New York City. The setting will be more cosmopolitan than bucolic Sweetwater. But for students accustomed to the bustle of Tokyo, that should pose no problem...