Word: toyko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last summer Toyko's Meiji Gakuin University found a solution. For $2.4 million it bought Tennessee Military Institute, a defunct boarding school in / Sweetwater, and spent $2 million restoring the property. The site was no accident: a large number of the 7,696 Japanese-affiliated firms in the U.S. are east of the Mississippi River, and almost 60 are in Tennessee...
...fell victim to those newsworthy, yet oversimplified assessments of American Asians. Lazarus too readily accepts the fallacious idea that Asian Americans are caught between two conflicting cultures. There should be no conflict with being an American and being of Asian ancestry, for having grandparents who were born in Canton, Toyko or Seoul is just as American as having forefathers from Milan, Budapest or Edinburgh...
Just like in the old movies, there is a budding love affair between two of the central characters, and it blossoms into a beautiful relationship under the pressure of Godzilla's wrath. There are fantastic coincidences which allow the two to meet, and Godzilla's naughty behavior in downtown Toyko literally throws the two into each others' arms...
...knows that a follow-up movie must be bigger and better than the its predecessors. But Godzilla just isn't any bigger and better. The creature has no new powers. It doesn't destroy anything more than it did in the past (in fact it was pretty lenient on Toyko this time). It doesn't travel in space, threaten the moon, or try to stop the Earth from rotating...
...Toyko to discuss the June presidential election in the Philippines with other Filipino leaders, Aquino has strongly opposed the Marcos' regime. In 1973, Marcos jailed Aquino shortly after cancelling a presidential election which Aquino was favored...