Word: tsunoda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diplomacy too much of a one-man show. Says a Democratic adviser to several Presidents: "When you personalize foreign policy to the extent he has, you must be prepared to rise with success and descend with failure. You live by the sword and you die by the sword." Jun Tsunoda, who advises the Japanese government on U.S. affairs, makes the same point. "Diplomacy in today's complex world is too big a job for one man to handle in person...
...night the summons may come. Then the young Nisei from California must trudge down to the waterfront in Japan and pitch in at one of the world's oddest jobs: measuring dead whales. "When the mountainous carcasses are cut up, the stench is stifling," says Lawrence Tsunoda, 28, a marine mammalogist from San Diego. "As for the pools of blood, well...
...Tsunoda and Los Angeles Zoologist Eugene Nitta, 24, were hired by the U.S. Department of Commerce this summer to record the sex and length of every catch towed to Japan's seven whaling ports and to send the data to the regulatory International Whaling Commission in London. Their object is to try to make sure that Japan's $100 million-a-year whaling industry, the world's largest, does not violate international standards (no pregnant whales and none smaller than 35 ft. can be taken...