JAPAN
(See also Hirohito, Emperor; Shinto)
abacus: g79 12/8 31; g76 4/8 30; g71 11/22 17-20
contest between electronic calculator and: g78 12/22 19
abortions: g82 3/8 16-18; g80 5/22 11; g79 3/22 31; w78 7/1 7; g74 6/22 7-8; g73 12/22 31; g67 9/8 15-16; g66 9/8 29; g63 7/8 29
Buddhist mass for babies killed by abortion: g82 12/22 30
survey regarding: g83 10/8 31
acupuncture:
for animals: g79 4/8 31
advertising agencies: g78 2/22 31
agriculture: g75 8/22 18; g68 5/22 29
airplane with model airplane engines: g77 6/8 30
antibiotic pills: g76 8/22 30
ants stop trains: g76 8/8 30
armaments:
cost per person: g75 10/22 30
army: g61 7/22 30
“artificial blood”: w82 5/1 7; g80 2/22 21-23; g79 8/8 31; g79 10/8 29
atheist: g74 1/22 21
attitude toward communism: g54 10/22 14-15
automated supermarket: g75 8/22 29
automation: g80 5/8 30-31
automobile accidents: g79 3/22 29; g78 8/8 30; g71 10/22 10; g67 2/8 29; g66 11/8 30; g64 10/8 30
highway deaths based on distance traveled: g79 10/8 30
automobiles:
dealing with parking violators: g83 1/8 30
households owning: g76 1/22 30
manufactured: g80 10/8 30; g67 4/22 31
number of drivers: g78 9/8 31
aviation:
safety record: g81 12/8 31
world’s worst air crash: g85 12/8 30
babies:
mortality rate: g84 8/22 30
recording to prevent crying of: g75 5/22 30
bankruptcy:
city financial problems: g75 12/8 30
corporations: g77 4/8 10
suicide: w79 2/1 15
Bible publishing: g62 9/8 30
Bible translations:
problem with translating the name Jesus: w84 5/15 25
bicycles: g80 9/8 31
birds: g84 8/22 24-25; g72 3/8 30
nest-building magpies: g76 5/22 30
birth statistics: g69 12/8 31; g62 6/22 31
blind persons:
schooling and employment: g84 4/8 16-19
blood transfusions:
danger of hepatitis: g80 5/22 30
syphilitic blood transfusion: g61 5/8 30
bonsai: g79 2/8 25; g71 6/8 15-16
book sales: g76 5/22 30
bribery scandal: g76 7/8 29
Buddhism:
animal cemetery: g81 7/8 29
Buddhist mass for babies killed by abortion: g82 12/22 30
funerals for pets: g84 7/8 29-30
giant statue of Buddha: g77 3/8 31
membership: g85 12/8 9
memorial services: g77 9/8 29
trinity: w61 104
business:
benri-ya (“useful shops”): g85 10/8 30-31
merchants on wheels: g78 12/8 12-14
cancer:
death rate statistics: g78 9/22 29
discovery of carcinogenic gene in a group of viruses: g80 4/8 30
effect of vitamin C on terminal cancer patients: g79 6/8 30
in fish: g80 7/22 30
pain relief: g79 7/22 30
carp (koi): g83 11/22 14
Catholic Church: yb73 211-212; g50 3/8 5; g46 4/10 2; g45 5/9 13; g45 12/19 22-25; rw 54-55; g44 3/1 12; w43 28; g43 1/6 22-23, 26; g43 3/17 25; g43 4/28 4; g43 7/7 14; g43 8/4 11; g43 8/18 14-15; wl 324; g42 3/4 3-11; g42 4/1 2; g42 11/25 5; g40 8/21 4-5; g39 2/8 22; g39 5/31 20-21; g39 12/13 21-22
visit by Pope John Paul II: w81 6/15 19
centenarians: g84 1/22 31
Cheops pyramid replica failure: g78 6/8 29
children:
child alcoholic: g77 12/8 30
decline in manual skills: g84 5/8 31
chimpanzee assists veterinarian: g76 10/22 30
Chinese jet-setters travel to: g84 10/8 29
Chinese war: g43 7/21 28; g42 1/7 21; g42 4/1 4-11; g42 9/2 29-31; g42 10/28 16; g41 1/8 26; g40 2/21 26-27; g39 5/3 9; g38 3/9 24; g38 6/1 13; g38 7/13 20-21; g38 8/24 18; g38 12/28 26; g33 3/1 330; g32 3/2 326-328; g32 3/16 368-371; g32 3/30 405-406; g32 8/17 711-712
Christendom’s missionaries: w78 5/15 15
Christmas: w78 12/15 3; g74 1/22 31; g68 12/8 3; g64 12/22 5
city financial problems: g75 12/8 30
Ōsaka: g78 1/22 31
coffee consumption: g77 6/8 6
commerce: g64 7/8 29
computers: g81 2/8 29
cockroach causes computer malfunction: g78 2/22 30
confections and candies: g81 4/8 26-27
Constitution:
Article 9 renouncing war: g85 8/22 7
consumer-goods boom: g76 1/22 30
cooking: g74 8/8 13-16
cost of living: g76 10/8 30
crime: g84 4/8 31; g84 11/22 30; g75 4/22 31; g71 10/22 11; g68 1/8 5-6; g68 6/8 30; g66 1/22 16; g66 2/22 31; g64 10/8 11; w61 629
counterfeit money: g76 7/8 31
effect of gun control: g76 5/22 29
increase: g81 12/8 31
social ostracism used against gangsters: g77 5/22 30
Tokyo: g85 4/22 30
vigilance drills: g79 9/8 30
customs: g77 2/22 20
demand for ivory: g84 7/22 30
description: yb73 209-211, 222, 243, 246; g73 2/8 20-23; g60 3/22 20-24; g60 11/22 9-10; g60 12/8 30; g59 11/8 25-26; w57 509; g57 3/8 12; g57 6/8 27-28; g56 9/22 13-14; g56 11/22 20; w53 392; g50 2/8 9-11; g46 5/8 3-8; g42 3/18 6-10; g32 3/2 323-334; g32 3/16 363-373
disasters: g74 1/22 31; g66 4/8 31; g66 11/8 30; g65 9/8 29; g65 11/8 31; g64 8/22 30; g63 12/22 29; g62 6/22 30
diseases from coagulated blood in syringes: g78 7/22 29
dishonesty: g78 2/22 30-31
dispute between Buddhists and Shintos over religious structures in Nikko: g83 10/8 29
divorce statistics: g84 5/22 30; g83 4/22 30; g83 8/22 29; g78 10/22 3; g77 12/8 3; g76 1/8 31; g70 8/22 31
“Dog Runner”: g78 9/8 29
dogs to detect drugs: g84 8/8 30-31
earthquakes: g83 9/8 29-30; g75 4/22 29; w67 58; g65 10/8 16; g64 8/8 30; g60 12/22 14; lg 255; tf 290
drill to prepare for any future: g83 12/8 30-31
Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923: g83 12/8 30-31
preparation for future fatalities: g80 5/22 30
survey regarding safety measures taken when Tokyo was jolted by four tremors: g78 1/8 29-30
earthworms used to consume sludge: g77 10/8 31
economy: g75 11/22 31; g74 1/22 3; g74 6/8 25-26; g74 11/22 19-20; g73 11/22 11, 29; g71 10/22 9-11
strength: g85 5/8 3
world’s principal creditor: g85 9/8 31
education: g84 9/8 31
conformity and group values: g85 5/8 4-6
man 81 years old completes sixth grade: g78 6/8 30
preschool: g82 12/22 29
standards: g82 1/22 20
teacher regrets militaristic: w75 715
electron microscope: g76 1/8 31
emperors: g82 4/22 18-20
emperor renounces claims of divinity: g85 8/22 13
worship of: go 17-18
employment: g82 1/22 21-22
at home: g76 4/22 16-19
effect on family life: g85 5/8 9, 11; g85 7/22 15
labor cost per hour: g80 11/22 30
life in a big company: g85 5/8 6-11
manners at work: g85 5/8 7
women: g85 5/8 9
Expo ’70: g70 4/8 29; g70 7/8 9-12
Expo ’85: g85 12/22 23-25
extraction of lithium from seawater: g78 4/8 29
family: w74 261
family unit strong (quote): g78 6/22 3
fertility festivals: g79 7/8 29
fines for negligence when exercising: g81 1/22 29
fires:
housewife’s explosive temper causes disaster: g78 3/8 30
items householders flee with: g77 4/22 30
statistics: g76 2/8 30; g63 11/8 29
fishing industry: g61 7/22 13
use of sound recordings of killer whale to drive dolphins away: g79 3/22 30-31
floating factory:
paper mill: g77 10/8 30
flower:
chrysanthemum: g81 1/22 21-22
food: g74 8/8 13-16; g74 8/22 31; g73 2/8 22
chicken mizutaki: g84 5/8 26-27
o-konomi yaki (cabbage pancake with meat): g84 11/8 26-27
squid: g76 3/8 29
four-year-old boy with extraordinary English-language ability: g80 1/8 29
fraud:
cutting off index fingers to collect insurance: g82 11/22 31
funerals:
at Buddhist temples for gangsters: g76 10/8 31
discussion: g76 8/8 20-24
gambling: g76 4/22 31; g64 3/8 16; g57 8/8 16; g55 1/8 3-4
garbage disposal: g78 2/22 21-23
gardens: g79 2/8 24-26
generating electricity by using ocean waves: g84 8/22 30; g78 12/8 31; g77 11/8 31
girl runaways: g77 1/22 30
gliding: g78 8/22 17
gold atoms photographed: g77 1/8 30
gold bathtub: g80 5/8 30
gold find by fisherman renounced: g80 5/8 29
golf:
hole-in-one insurance: g85 6/8 30
grape growing: g84 2/8 26-27
health: g72 11/8 30-31
statistics: g76 2/8 30
hearing aid: g84 3/8 31
Hiroshima: kc 121; g80 10/22 29-30; yb73 221, 242-243; w69 195; g62 8/22 8-11
aftereffects on bomber’s target spotter: g78 9/22 29; g78 12/22 4-5
atom bomb rebuilt: g85 11/8 29
atomic bomb fatalities: g82 9/22 5; g80 6/8 6; g79 9/22 29
commemorations of atomic bombing: g85 8/22 3
consciences of bomber crew: g78 11/8 29
deaths in 1980 related to atomic bomb: g81 3/8 29
effect of radiation on aging: g78 12/22 30
effect on survivors: g84 4/8 22
eyewitness accounts: g85 8/22 3-5, 9-11; g82 9/22 4-5; g80 6/8 5
photos of atomic blast and results: g85 8/22 3-5
restoration: g85 8/22 7-8
history: g71 4/8 11; g54 10/8 9-11; g38 7/27 29-30; g33 7/5 631-632
Honda Motor Company:
conveyor belt “free flow system”: g77 3/22 29-30
hotels:
hotel with sleeping “capsules”: g81 7/8 30
items people leave behind in: g84 8/22 30
ice imported from Greenland: g83 1/8 30
industriousness of Japanese people: g82 1/22 20-23
inflation: g80 1/22 7
Inland Sea: g77 8/22 24-26
map: g77 8/22 25
international symposium on aging: g78 12/22 30
invasion of, during Russo-Japanese War: g32 3/16 367-368; g31 8/5 707-710
IQ scores: g82 8/22 30-31; g82 12/22 29
Japanese explorer reaches North Pole: g78 7/8 29
‘Japanese Miracle’: g85 5/8 3-11
price: g85 5/8 11
Japanese spider crab: g77 8/22 26
Jehovah’s Witnesses: yb86 53-54; yb85 14-15; w81 12/15 27; w78 6/1 20; w78 10/1 26; w77 25; yb75 13-14; km 2/75 3; yb74 18; w73 54-55; g73 9/22 11-12; yb72 44; g72 6/8 24; g72 9/8 7-8; km 12/72 4-5; w71 15-16; yb71 18-19, 47, 180-182; g71 1/22 26; w70 123, 362-363, 668-670; yb70 193-195; g70 1/22 19; g70 8/22 8; g70 11/22 26; w69 120-121, 389, 573; yb69 166-168; yb68 169-171; yb67 186-188; g67 4/8 6; w66 445-446; yb66 169-171; yb65 148-150; yb64 66-67, 186-187; g64 2/22 24-25; yb63 175-177; mg63 2, 153-158, 191; g63 11/8 12; yb62 173-176; yb61 172-175; g57 6/8 27-28
Akashi, Junzo: yb73 214-220, 223
Assembly Hall for Tokyo area: km 4/77 4
Assembly Halls: w85 6/15 24
association Todaisha (Lighthouse Association): yb73 214-217
atheists learn truth: g80 10/22 24; g79 11/8 15
auxiliary pioneers: yb83 31-32; km 2/77 4
Barry, Melba: w82 10/1 19; yb73 224-225
Barry, W. Lloyd: yb73 224-226, 236; w60 553-556
Beavor, Douglas: yb73 243-244
Bethel family: w85 6/15 25; g73 9/22 12
Bible Stories book: yb80 15
branch expansion at Ebina: w82 10/1 16-19; yb82 8; w81 10/1 17-18; g78 12/22 20
branch expansion at Numazu: w77 492-494; yb73 252-254; g73 9/22 11-12
branch expansion at Tokyo: yb73 251-252
branch office: w85 6/15 24-25; w79 5/1 28-29; yb77 20; yb73 214; jp 160; na46 41
chart of places where missionaries worked: yb73 255
circuit assemblies: w85 6/15 24; yb73 235
condemned murderer finds truth: w81 5/15 3, 8; yb73 244-245; w72 410; w59 637-639
consecutive peaks in publishers: yb84 15
conventions: w85 6/15 24; w80 12/1 8-9, 12-14; g80 12/22 16-19; yb79 20; g78 12/22 18-19; g76 10/22 16; yb73 226, 229-230, 232-233, 239-240, 245-246, 250; w63 637; w57 537-538; w56 507-509; w51 632-633, 651
corporation that represents: yb81 257
deaf person accepts truth: w82 8/1 6-7
Dearn, Gordon: yb73 232
early witness work: jp 160
Enomoto, Taeko (survivor of atomic bombing of Hiroshima): g85 8/22 9-11
experience in helping relatives learn truth: yb85 14-15
gambler learns truth: g80 10/22 24
Gregory, Gladys: yb73 228-229
Gregory, Grace: yb73 228
growth: w85 6/15 22-23, 25; yb85 14; w82 10/1 16-17; w77 492; yb73 252; yb71 180
growth since 1949: w82 10/1 19
Haslett, Donald: yb73 222-226, 238, 240-241, 251
Haslett, Mabel: w77 571; yb73 222-225, 238, 240-241, 251-252; w66 445-446
Hyde, Audrey: yb73 242
informal witnessing: km 6/79 8
Ishii, Jizo: yb73 217-220
Iszlaub, Percy: w81 5/15 3, 7-8; yb73 224, 227, 244-245
junior high school student conducts Bible studies with fellow students and teachers: w84 4/1 30
Katsuda, Natsue: yb73 230-231
Kingdom Halls: w85 6/15 23-24; yb73 240
life story of a former communist: g82 12/22 9-12
Mackenzie, F. L.: yb73 213
Memorial: yb86 54; w82 10/1 19; km 7/78 1
Mima, Shozo (life story): w78 3/1 12-15
missionaries: w85 6/15 22-23; w85 11/1 15; w84 5/1 20-21; w82 10/1 16, 18-19; w81 5/15 7-8; w80 6/15 26-27; g78 3/8 15; w71 16; w60 553-555; w59 534-535; w57 539; w55 300, 620; w53 392; g53 2/8 27-28; w51 631, 648-652
Miura, Hagino: yb73 220-222, 234
Miura, Katsuo (survivor of atomic bombing of Hiroshima): w83 7/15 21-22; yb73 220-222, 234
Miura, Tsutomu: yb73 220-222, 226, 234
modern history: w85 6/15 22-25; yb73 209-255
Nakamura, Masakazu (life story): w77 569-571
Nakata, Kimihiro (condemned murderer finds truth): w81 5/15 3, 8; yb73 244-245; w59 637-639
Nako, Adeline: yb73 240-241
number of congregations: w77 54
persecution: w80 12/1 12-14; yb73 214-219, 221; jp 141, 154, 160-161; na46 41, 51; g46 5/8 6
Pettitt, Leon (life story): w77 53-57
pioneers: yb86 54; w85 6/15 23-25; yb83 8; w82 10/1 17; km 3/80 4; yb78 15; km 2/78 3-4
printery (Watch Tower): w85 6/15 25; w82 10/1 18; g73 9/22 11-12
Robbins, Lyn: yb73 224
rotary offset press: w85 6/15 25; yb81 16
Samson, Lillian: yb73 241
service experiences: w85 1/15 28; w79 3/1 32; w77 493-494; w60 553-555; w59 575, 637-638; w58 382; w56 509; w55 620; g53 2/8 28; w51 650; w30 206-207, 238, 382
smiles of Witnesses impress newspaper columnist: w82 8/1 27
sociologist Wilson’s (Bryan) comments: g81 10/8 14-15; w79 7/15 21
sound car: yb73 218
Steele, Don: yb73 228
Steele, Earlene: yb73 228
Stratton, Nora: yb73 228
survey as to how Witnesses learned truth: w81 1/1 19; w79 7/15 21
Taylor, Elizabeth: yb73 238
territory coverage: yb83 31-32
Thompson, Adrian: yb81 232; yb73 224, 230, 233-235
truth unites family: g80 4/22 24
volunteer workers build printing factory at Ebina: g81 5/8 16-21
youth auxiliary pioneers while in school: w84 4/1 30
youths show strong faith in resurrection hope: w84 8/1 18
jogger fined for running into woman: g81 1/22 29
juvenile delinquency: g83 12/22 29; g81 4/22 30; g75 3/8 29; g58 9/22 5-6
kimonos: g77 5/8 13-15
kites:
damage from: g76 6/8 30
danger of electrocution: g78 5/22 31
discussion: g77 7/22 17-20
flying record: g76 9/8 31
kotatsu (leg-warming device): g80 3/8 30
Kyoto: mg63 153
land prices: g80 7/22 31
most expensive piece of land in: g79 5/8 30-31
land sinking in cities of: g76 1/8 30
language: g78 3/8 12-15; g73 9/22 12
largest artificial diamond: g77 10/22 31
largest cherry tree: g79 4/8 27
League of Nations: w64 746; g36 7/29 678; g32 3/16 372
life span: g85 12/8 31; g84 8/22 30; g78 12/8 31
centenarians: g80 12/8 30; g74 2/22 30
comparison of life span for married and divorced persons: g80 7/22 30
linear motor railcar: g78 4/8 29
litter:
by mountain climbers: g79 3/22 31
reducing soft-drink can: g85 9/22 29
lottery: g79 5/8 29
manufacturing productivity: g82 2/22 30
marriage: g85 5/8 9-10
by go-between: g81 6/8 12-15
honeymoons abroad: g77 2/8 30
more likely to endure: g70 9/8 6
percentage of women expecting to derive happiness: g80 12/8 30
martial arts: w83 7/15 24-25; g75 12/8 28-29; g65 2/22 10-13
materialism: g82 6/8 29; w81 12/15 27
memory feat:
decimal places of pi: g79 9/8 30-31
mice killed by supersonic waves: g78 1/8 30
military buildup since World War II: g85 8/22 8
mineral resources: g74 11/22 16-17, 19
minimum air-conditioned room temperature: g79 6/22 31
money:
currency change: g85 4/8 30
find causes anxiety to finder: g81 2/8 31
moral breakdown: g73 3/22 30; g71 10/22 10-11; g58 9/22 5-6; g57 4/22 28; g52 4/22 23; g52 7/22 28
adultery: g83 8/22 29
Mount Fuji: g79 8/22 17-19
efforts to prevent crumbling: g85 1/8 30
music: g78 4/8 20-21
rock music riot: g78 4/8 29
symphony orchestras: g85 5/8 3
Nagasaki: g85 8/22 5-6; g84 3/22 3; kc 121
atomic bomb fatalities: g79 9/22 29
Catholic population wiped out: w81 1/15 26
traces of plutonium 239: g81 3/8 29
Nagoya:
castle in: g70 5/22 11
newspaper comment on need for gratitude: w76 583
Ninomiya Sontoku, “Peasant Sage” of Japan: g85 5/8 4
noise of city life: g75 4/22 31
number of doctors and dentists per 100,000 people: g84 3/22 30
number of lawyers compared with that of United States: g82 1/22 23
odorless garlic developed: g78 2/22 30
oil:
imports: g78 2/8 14; g74 6/8 25
production: g74 1/8 6; g74 6/8 25
Okinawa: g70 1/8 30
Olympics: g64 12/22 23-24
Ōsaka:
city financial problems: g78 1/22 31
pace of life: g85 6/22 29
pandas mate at Tokyo zoo: g77 8/8 30
pay for manufacturing jobs: g79 7/8 30
pearls: g74 9/8 24-26
percent of personal spending:
on alcoholic beverages: g81 3/8 30
on food: g81 3/8 30
phonetic typewriter: g78 5/8 29
plastic surgery: g76 11/8 31
pollution: g71 10/22 10
air: g77 8/8 29
battery: g84 10/22 30
population: yb86 36; g63 6/8 10
density according to area: g77 9/22 31
pornography: g78 3/22 30-31
pressure from United States to increase import of American tobacco: g82 6/22 29
priest laments his role as chaplain to airmen who dropped atomic bombs on: w81 1/15 26
prisons: g75 11/22 31; w72 410
“pyramid” sales companies: g78 10/8 20
radiation:
detection by spiderwort plant: g79 8/8 30
effect on survivors of atomic bombing: g77 10/22 31
fallout: g55 7/22 8, 11-12; g54 5/22 5-8; g54 9/8 18-19
railways:
bullet trains: g80 5/8 30; g78 7/8 8-11
cash left behind: g79 8/22 30
items left on trains: g79 8/22 30; g76 8/8 31; g75 7/22 31
Kōbe Portliner: g81 5/22 30-31
longest tunnel: g85 6/22 30-31; g82 8/8 30; g77 1/22 31
passengers cheating on fares: g79 7/22 29
rating of its products: g75 10/22 30
rats:
plague-bearing: g78 7/22 30
threaten to overrun Miyake Island: g76 1/8 30
records of ancient times: g82 4/22 18-19
recycling trash: g80 7/8 30
recycling wastepaper into toilet tissue: g80 7/22 30-31
relations with China: g72 11/22 29
religion: g85 5/8 10; g80 11/8 5-7; g78 12/22 19-20; gh 124-125; yb73 210-214, 222; w70 362, 747-748; w69 390-392; g68 2/8 23-24; g66 8/8 14; g66 9/22 12-15; g65 4/22 14; g65 6/8 23; w64 105; g64 4/22 5-6, 17; g64 9/22 12; mg63 156-157; g63 5/22 16; w61 103; g61 4/22 15, 28; g61 8/22 24-26; w60 40; g60 10/22 30; w58 744; g58 9/22 6; w57 509, 537; g52 5/22 16; g51 4/22 10, 12; g50 2/8 11; g50 10/22 20; g46 4/24 29-31; ta 342-343; g45 12/5 3-5; g42 2/18 5-6; g42 3/4 2-5; g40 2/21 26; g33 1/18 242; g32 3/2 324-325, 333-334
evasion of taxes: g84 6/22 29
membership statistics: g85 12/8 9
Shinto sects: w83 9/15 3
Soka Gakkai: yb73 222
theology course abolished: g80 2/22 17
remains of Kublai Khan’s invasion fleet found: g81 12/22 30
research on brain shrinkage: g80 11/22 29
residence changes: g77 1/8 30
resolving disputes outside of court: g82 1/22 23
rice: g79 2/22 21-24
riots: g69 1/22 8; g69 5/22 3, 5; g69 7/22 27; g69 10/8 30; g69 12/8 29; g68 12/8 29
robots: g84 3/22 30-31; g82 1/22 8
robot kills worker: g82 4/8 31
rule over Taiwan: g73 7/22 21-22
sacred horse: g77 5/22 31
sail-powered ship: g80 11/8 30
saving face: w80 9/15 3
savings account deposits (average): g81 3/22 30
schools: g85 5/8 4-6; g85 9/22 4-6; g79 11/22 4
gang of toughs apologizes to students and teachers: g84 9/22 18-20
insurance to cover student assailants: g84 11/8 31
tuition fees at private schools: g79 3/22 30
Seikan tunnel: g85 6/22 30-31; g82 8/8 30
sensitivity to alcohol among Japanese: g82 5/22 30
sewage fertilizer: g81 5/8 30
Shinto:
beginnings of: g84 1/8 5
discussion: g85 8/22 12-13
enshrined World War II militarists: g79 8/8 29
fox god: g82 9/8 31
membership: g85 5/8 10; g85 12/8 9
number of sects: w83 9/15 3
Yasukuni Shrine: g81 12/8 30
shipbuilding: g62 8/8 30
shipwreck of merchant boat in 1832: g82 10/22 16-20
Sho-Gatsu celebration: g51 12/22 21-24
silk: g77 5/8 13-14
smoking:
candy-flavored filter cigarette: g82 11/22 29
“nonsmoking” allowance: g78 7/8 30
number of smokers: g81 3/8 5
snowmen: g71 1/8 20-22
solar energy: g78 2/8 12-15; g72 10/8 26
sports:
baseball: g85 5/8 3
stature of people increased: g73 2/22 31
student demonstrations: g63 5/22 9
Stylesetter machine: g82 3/8 31
suicides: g85 7/22 15
causes: g65 7/8 29
college student: g80 9/8 30
statistics: g80 4/22 5
students: g84 1/8 17
sumo wrestling: g77 9/8 30
life story of a former sumo wrestler: g83 6/8 16-19
“sunshine” lawsuits: g76 11/22 29
superstition:
in tunnel construction industry: g78 6/22 30
killing a cat: g76 5/8 31
surgery:
bloodless: g79 1/22 29
surveys regarding—
beer consumption by countries: g83 11/22 31
do you have a religion of some sort?: w80 10/15 23
percentage of women desiring marriage and percentage expecting happiness: g80 12/8 30
reading habits: g84 4/22 30
response to speed limits: g79 9/8 31
students who knew how to use chopsticks: g84 10/8 30-31
tax dodgers: g84 6/22 29
whether children have the duty to look after aged parents: g82 5/8 30
whether “money is almighty”: g80 6/8 3
whom would you call first if an earthquake occurred when you were away from home?: g80 12/8 30
why cars collided with emergency vehicles: g83 11/22 31
youths’ view of conscription: g80 8/8 29
youths’ view of the most desirable attributes of the opposite sex: g80 9/22 29
youths who have considered suicide: hp 6
tallest building in Orient: g78 8/22 29
television:
bad effect on youthful viewers: g78 6/22 3
largest color set: g77 5/8 30
three-dimensional: g80 8/22 30
time spent watching: g75 11/8 30
violence: g80 3/22 30
Tokyo: g76 12/22 29; g73 4/8 30; g71 10/22 29; g71 11/22 30; g70 12/22 4; g66 8/8 30; g65 6/8 20-23; g65 6/22 29; g65 9/8 10-11; g64 5/22 30; g63 8/22 30; g63 10/22 30; g62 4/8 30; g61 3/22 30; g61 5/8 30; g59 8/8 29; g59 11/8 25; g56 11/22 20
air pollution: g72 10/8 10-11
bicycle “flood”: g85 7/8 30
cost of land: g82 7/22 30
cost of living: g79 7/22 31; g78 2/8 29; g77 11/22 29
crime: g85 4/22 30; g83 4/22 30; g79 1/8 29
financial problems: g78 12/22 30; g77 12/8 31
population: g79 10/8 31
safest city: g84 4/8 31
subways: g76 9/22 30
summit conference on oil prices: g79 10/8 27-28
tooth decay for candy tasters: g78 8/8 31
tunnel:
world’s longest: g85 6/22 30-31; g82 8/8 30; g77 1/22 31
typewriters: g81 2/8 28
typhoons: yb73 227-228; g59 1/8 17-19; g59 12/8 16-20; g55 1/22 20
result of year without: g85 3/22 30
university closes theology course: w78 10/1 26
used-clothing sales: g76 8/8 31
vending machines: g78 7/8 31
video games:
children turn to crime to support habit of playing: g83 6/22 30
visits by—
Adams, D. A.: w56 507-509
Barry, W. L.: w82 10/1 18-19
Franz, F. W.: w82 10/1 18-19; yb73 245-246, 250; w57 509, 537-539, 571
Henschel, M. G.: yb73 242; w51 633, 648-652
Knorr, N. H.: yb73 232-233, 239-240, 246, 250, 252-254; w56 507-509; w51 588, 631-635, 648-652
Russell, C. T.: w85 6/15 22; yb73 212-213; w71 15
volcano:
rocks hit jetliners: g80 2/8 29
war: g71 4/8 11
efforts to renounce war: g85 8/22 7-8
water shortage: g64 9/22 29-30
canned water for emergencies: g80 6/22 31
waterwheel to generate power from tidal movements: g84 8/22 30
weapons: g63 3/22 29
weddings: w84 4/15 22; g83 3/22 30
when judged civilized: g71 4/8 11
women: g79 5/22 16-20
all women workers at motorbike factory: g78 12/8 30
divers: g68 1/22 26
workweek: g77 6/8 31
world’s fair: g65 11/8 31
World War II: g62 8/22 8-11; g61 2/8 12; w60 40; jp 159-160; g50 3/8 5; g47 9/8 6; g46 4/10 2; g46 5/8 3-8; g46 6/19 29; g45 12/5 4-8; g44 3/1 12; g43 7/7 24; g42 1/7 21; g42 2/18 5-11; g42 3/4 2-11; g42 3/18 3-6, 10-11; g42 4/1 3-11; g42 9/2 29-31; g42 10/28 16, 19-21; g42 12/9 18-20; g41 1/8 26; g41 5/14 9-10; g39 8/23 25; g35 5/22 535-536
emperor’s announcement of surrender: g85 8/22 6
youths: g73 9/22 30
health: g79 9/22 30-31
“sex club”: g79 3/22 31