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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smaller fry; several of them were allegedly involved in funneling Lockheed cash to government officials. But with Tanaka's arrest, the scandal finally reached the top echelon of Japanese politics, a level of power and privilege that most Japanese had cynically felt was above prosecution. Said Seiichi Yoshikawa, a Tokyo lawyer, in describing the general shock: "People here have been resigned for a long time to the belief that big fish like Tanaka were immune to prosecution. So many of us banzaied to see that myth go to pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Bribery Shokku At the Top | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

Power of Prayer. Takara is headed by Hidenobu Yoshikawa, a bouncy 70-year-old who founded the firm 49 years ago. A devout Buddhist, he says that he conceives all of his business ideas, including the one to enter the U.S. market, during his daily prayer periods. Takara's $1,000,000 "Beautilion" at the Osaka World's Fair is a futuristic pile of steel tubing and rounded capsules that reflects Yoshikawa's flamboyant sense of promotion. On one floor, 48 barber chairs shaped like lotus leaves lift visitors nine feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: The Great Barber-Chair Coup | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

Though he is almost as bald as a Boy Scout's knee, Yoshikawa never misses his weekly trip to the barber, who trims what tendrils are left and gives him a massage. More weekly haircuts, he asserts, could improve the chances for world peace because "neatness induces a repose in the mind." Unless, of course, one happens to be a Takara competitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: The Great Barber-Chair Coup | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

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