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...Japan, where 23,500 people killed themselves last year, and the suicide rate increases by 5% a year, Candy Salesman Akira Emoto, 31. was long regarded as a candidate for the statistics column. He brooded, he ate sleeping pills and last summer he tried to poison himself. "Just you wait." he told friends in the southern city of Kokonoe, "very soon I shall do something that will startle the nation...
...snap his son out of his despondency. Akira's father found him a bride. Though it was an arranged marriage, Akira seemed pleased with his pretty, 19-year-old Chieko, and she with him. They delayed their honeymoon because they did not have enough money. One day last week, Emoto announced gaily: "My uncle in Iwakuni wants us to go up there for our honeymoon, and he has sent me the tickets...
...months ago, Zensei ran into trouble. Police probed Zensei's finances, concluded that it had spent $180,000 on bribes to Diet members. They jailed Director Akira Suzuki, arrested Manabe, began investigations of other Diet members...
...Magnificent Seven. Blood and thunder in medieval Japan, masterfully directed by Akira Kurosawa, who made Rashomon (TIME...
...Magnificent Seven. Blood and thunder in medieval Japan, with overtones of agrarian allegory, masterfully directed by the man (Akira Kurosawa) who made Rashomon (TIME...