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...Fuji's Foot. The movement mixes the evangelism of Moral Rearmament with the get-out-the-vote discipline of the Communist Party and lots of show biz. Founded in 1930, it was suppressed during World War II and began sweeping the nation in 1947 under a talented organizer and ex-schoolteacher named Josei Toda. Soka Gakkai now claims 13 million members and 100,000 converts a month. While some critics question these figures, there is no doubt that the movement is gaining impressively. Last month, at ceremonies featuring martial bands, a waltz-playing orchestra, an all-girl chorus...
...first overseas tour, Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun (circ. 3,800,000) sent along a photographer and four birds; one brought a royal picture home from 250 miles at sea for a front-page scoop. Wings beat for Mainichi again when U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall climbed Mount Fuji in 1961. Halfway to the summit, a cameraman released two pigeons which covered the 70 air miles to Tokyo just in time for the evening edition. The Mainichi flock scored its latest coo last October, flying in with pictures of a sailing race...
Another target was the flood of pornographic literature that has been un controlled in Japan, protected by "free dom of the press." In the town of Kofu at the base of Mount Fuji, bookshop owners voluntarily banned 37 sex magazines from their counters. Their movement spread across the nation; in the southern city of Moji, book dealers and youth leaders burned 1,500 copies of "undesirable" magazines. By last week Japan's 7,000-member Federation of Book Retailers had joined in the black list, and at least four of the publications were out of business...
Because it's there? No. Because he was there. In Africa to address a conference on wildlife preservation, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, 43, who gets a boot out of barging around mountains (two years ago he loped up Japan's 12,388-ft. Mount Fuji), now was set on 19,317-ft. Mount Kilimanjaro. "This is not a dangerous climb, just a long, hard walk," said Stew, and up he went casually clad in climbing pants, sports shirt and sweater. That was a bit skimpy for the hidden throes of Kilimanjaro-one seasoned mountaineer in the party collapsed...
Last week Ikeda's government decided the reins could safely be loosened a little, lowered the official bank interest rate by 0.3% to 6.57%-back to where it was before the clampdown. Japanese businessmen were delighted, but they still managed to pull a poor mouth. Says Fuji Steel President Shigeo Nagano: "I would like to see the government now embark on a general relaxation of financial curbs, otherwise it is going to be a long, slow climb back to prosperity''-Japanese style, that...