Not so long ago, Japan dreamed of sending war lords to govern the U.S. from Washington. This year, with old enmities fading fast, Japan's postwar rulers dispatched a different set of emissaries across the Pacific: 91 examples of her finest painting and sculpture, carefully packaged for a nationwide good-will tour of the U.S. In the past five months the show has drawn fascinated crowds in Washington and Manhattan; last fortnight, before doubling back to Chicago and Boston, the exhibition arrived aboard a specially refrigerated freight car for a four-week stay at the Seattle...
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