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...with sadness. A drunkard tipsily shows off his strength by weight-lifting a barrel; two men get happily looped on a sake binge; a maiden frowns over a sour note she has struck while tuning her samisen; a ragged little urchin sits perched in a tree while majestic Mount Fuji soars incongruously in the distance. Under Hokusai's brush, Japan emerges as more than a floating land of stylized ritual: he had learned the secret he did not expect to know until he was no, when "every dot and every line from my brush will be alive...
...photographic print." Japanese audiences heard Hovhaness conduct several of his older works-Psalm and Fugue, the 28-minute Concerto No. 8-plus two brand-new works written in transit: Symphony No. 8, subtitled "Arjuna," after the name of a mythical hero from Indian folklore; and the choral piece Fuji (based on an 8th century Japanese poem beginning: "As I stepped out on the beach of Tago, I saw snow falling on Mount Fuji...
...about turning over U.S. Soldier William Girard to the Japanese courts, but Tokyo's Mainichi had a deeper worry: "This is like telling the world that in Japan you can do anything if you are drunk. Perhaps we should advertise Japan abroad not as the land of Mt. Fuji and geishas but as a paradise for alcoholics." About twelve Japanese a year win acquittal on murder charges by proving they were drunk or drugged (a plea that is no defense at all in U.S. courts). Announced the Justice Ministry: "Revision of Article 39 is being considered...
...African drums." Handicap Game. In Tokyo, preparing to pay a bet lost on the U.S. All-Star baseball game, Stars and Stripes Employee Don Schuck went into training for ten days, lost 8 Ibs., then golfed his way through wind, sleet and hail to the summit of Mount Fuji (12,389 ft.), losing 27 balls, taking 1,275 strokes, and after 10 hr. 50 min. holed out into the mountain's 2,000-ft.-wide crater...
Rikitake now considers his theory pretty well proved, and he hopes that it will be used to keep tabs on basaltic volcanoes all over the world. Among these are Japan's Mount Fuji, the volcanoes in the Hawaiian Islands and Mount Vesuvius...