Word: adachi
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...chair next to the male host and giggled on cue. But her debut as a talk-show host eleven years ago changed all that. Her quick tongue, candor, spontaneity and irrepressible curiosity were revolutionary and made her a significant role model for ambitious women all across Japan. Says Eiichi Adachi, television critic of Tokyo's daily Hochi: "Tetsuko has had more impact on her audience than any other top personality." woman Today, at 49, unshow-business abashedly unmarried and proudly independent in a country where both conditions are frowned upon, Tetsuko thrives as a tradition breaker...
...attaches unacceptable conditions to still others. Ford and Chrysler have been delayed for years in attempts to buy into the booming Japanese auto industry, and General Motors has won permission for only a limited investment: 35% ownership of a joint venture with Isuzu Motors, a truck maker. Says James Adachi, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan: "We can set up a factory to make geta [Japanese wooden clogs], or open a supermarket, so long as it is smaller than 500 square meters...
...union said that it would fight the firings "to the end." Angry workmen loosened switches, cut wires and attempted train derailments. One rain-soaked night last week, Shimoyama's body, with one arm and both legs cut off, was found lying across the tracks in Tokyo's Adachi ward...
Between MacArthur and the western end of New Guinea were two Japanese armies at least 100,000 strong: the Eighteenth, under Lieut. General Nijusan Adachi, with headquarters at Madang; the Second, spread from Geelvink Bay to Vogelkop's beak at Sorong. But it was no part of MacArthur's strategy to meet any of these masses headon. His strategy was to fight only as much as was necessary to gain footholds behind them. Then he was behind them and they behind him. Whichever lost control of air and sea was then undone...
There was no room for Adachi to maneuver in the 7-mile-wide corridor of swamp and jungle. But anything was better than death by stagnation. So he lashed out to the west, hoping to drive the Americans from Aitape, 21 miles away. What they hoped to gain beyond that, with Americans dug in 600 miles to the west of them, only Adachi and the sun-god knew...