Japanese bathhouses disappear from Tokyo streets
Japan’s public baths or sento once marked neighborhoods with tall chimneys now fade as prosperity and private baths lure families away. Elderly observers note loss of community and daily social ties, while hot springs tourism grows. Sento counts dropped from 2,796 in 1941 to 12,625 remaining in 1973, with many operating only evenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beth Hughes
San Francisco Examiner
Tokyo
Japan
Sento
Setsuko Kiota
Daikokuyu
Yoshinori
Fumi Nakano
Kitasenju
Nakano
Peter Grilli
Norihide Watanabe
Japan Public Bath Association
Bath
Scripps Howard News Service
Gorbachev hints at stepping down amid party pressures
Mikhail Gorbachev faces a rising possibility of leaving the Communist Party leadership as he expands presidential powers. Critics argue the party may crumble or restructure at the July 2 congress while allies and rivals map paths for succession and continued reform.
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Juliet O’neill
Southam
Moscow
Mikhail Gorbachev
Communist Party
Gorbachev
Eduard Shevardnadze
Central Committee
Alexander Yakovlev
Canada
KGB
Interior Security Ministry
Yakovlev
Leningrad
Boris Gidaspov
Yeltsin
Yegor Ligachev
Evgeny Ambartsumov
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Ryzhkov
Interpol Faces Image Issues and Modernization in Canada
Interpol evolves from mystique to modern policing as Canada hosts 500 delegates for a global assembly. Interpol Canada operates from RCMP headquarters with 27 staff, handles drug trafficking, terrorism, murder, and art theft data, and contributes about 500000 annually toward a 24 million dollar budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ian Macleod
Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa
Interpol
James Bond
International Police Organization
RCMP
United Nations
Addis Ababa
Yaounde
Lyon
France
Canada
Claude Sweeney
Soviet Union
Poland
Interpol General Assembly
Congress Centre
Government
National Central Bureau
Interpol Canada
Foreign Service
Colombia
Immigrant voices on graffiti and a cleaner classroom fix
K Connie Kang recalls immigrants describing graffiti in San Francisco and argues for copying Asia’s classroom cleaning tradition. She notes Chinese Japanese and Korean neighbors coping with vandalism while praising daily student cleaning duties from grade school onward as a deterrent and pride-building practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connie Kang
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco
Japan
America
South Korea
Asia
Korea
Scripps Howard News Service
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