Word: yokohama
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...opens with five minutes of supervised calisthenics. There is a vast range of fringe benefits: discount meals at plant cafeterias, cut-rate vacations at company resorts, cheap rental in company apartment houses (roughly $10.80 a month for a two-room flat in one Nippon Kokan building in Yokohama...
Complicating the matter further, much of the city's lethal, eye-smarting smog, which sent 8,000 persons to the hospital last July, sweeps into Tokyo from factories outside the prefecture in the bustling Yokohama-Kawasaki region. Though the Diet passed 14 anti-pollution measures last winter, including the power to arrest offenders as criminals, Premier Sato has yet to demonstrate any enthusiasm for enforcement, presumably for fear of alienating big business contributors to his party...
...newspaper editorialized that G.N.P. "really means gross national pollution." Another paper investigated each of Japan's 46 prefectures and found that all but two suffer from kogai-environmental disruption. Cars in Tokyo cause an eye-stinging photochemical smog. Nearly every major city in Japan has its version of "Yokohama asthma," a wheezing caused by air pollution. Noxious industrial wastes wash around the bays of Tokyo, Osaka and Dokai in northern Kyushu. Amid the public outcry against kogai, a 15-year-old student recently scolded Premier Eisaku Sato for taking no action against pollution. "Isn't the government treating...
...said, should lay out as much as $10 billion, if necessary, to construct a "paradise" for Vietnamese victims of the war. Today Matsuda, who once owned an apartment house and a prosperous mail-order business in body-building equipment, is alone and broke, driving a truck in Yokohama. Because of his idealistic extravagance, his wife divorced him, taking their sons with...
...larger ships, and builders have to meet the orders so that competitors will not run away with them. Since 1968, the oil companies have put into service twelve ships of 200,000 tons or more-called "oilbergs"-and they have 170 more on order in yards from Bilbao to Yokohama. Last week California Standard contracted for a pair of 260,000-tonners from Japan's Mitsubishi. Britain's Scott Lithgow group two weeks ago landed its first order for an oilberg, a 250,000-tonner to be constructed for Anglo Norness, a Bermuda-based shipping company. The builder...