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Osamu Katayama Yokohama...
...their young who most trouble the Japanese. They are a remarkably law-abiding people. Yet at graduation time this spring, more than 10% of the nation's junior high schools were guarded by the police. A group of teenagers in Yokohama not long ago beat several street bums to death. Gangs of motorcycle riders taunt the police on Saturday nights; they blast past the stations and dare police to chase them through the maze of traffic. Juvenile delinquency, historically always low, has increased 80% since 1972. A White Paper issued by the Prime Minister's office concluded of today...
...Japanese politicians have little choice but to woo votes with decibels: not only are television and newspaper ads forbiddingly expensive, but candidates are prohibited from making their pitches door to door. So deafening was the din during last June's campaign for seats to the Upper House that a Yokohama group called the Association of Sufferers from Noise urged citizens (quietly, of course) not to vote for those indulging in renko, the repeated chanting of political slogans and names...
Although the Suzuki government has pledged to chop away at some of the more egregious nontariff barriers, there are thousands of import restrictions that permeate life and society in Japan. Says one Japanese businessman candidly: "Consider the inspector who has been sitting at the dock in Yokohama saying no for 40 years. He is going to find it very hard suddenly to start saying yes just because some politician in Tokyo says it is the new policy...
...working environment of Japanese plants is not fancy. Though they are kept immaculately clean, the buildings are spare and functional, and the machinery is always the most up-to-date. Occasionally workers will try to add some local color. At Nissan's body assembly plant in Zama, near Yokohama, workers have pasted pictures of movie stars like Sayuri Yoshinaga and Kaori Momoi on the new robots that make the cars...