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...reveal or even speculate on events to come, Kikuta will only say, "I should like to see a sad-happy ending." Radio listeners are predicting that 1) Haruki and Machiko will marry and she will then die in childbirth, or 2) Haruki and Machiko will both climb Mount Fuji and make a double suicide dive into the crater of the sacred volcano...
...Cool as Fuji. In another, more typical Akutagawa story, an unemployed servant is horrified to find an old hag yanking the hair from a dead fishwife to make a wig. "If she knew I had to do this in order to live, she probably wouldn't care." the hag explains. "Are you sure?" asks the servant mockingly. "Then it's right if I rob you. I'd starve if I didn't." And he strips off her clothes and kicks her roughly down among the decaying corpses...
When Tokyo's Fuji Bank placed an advertisement in the U.S. edition of TIME early this year, it became the first Japanese concern to do so since 1937. The event was solid evidence of the large strides toward commercial and industrial recovery now being made in Japan. It was also a tribute to the efforts of Robert H. Garey, Pacific publishing manager for TIME-LIFE International, and Harold Yoshiomi Hirata, TIME'S Tokyo advertising salesman, who have long been urging Japanese businessmen to seek world markets for their products...
Though the Fuji Bank is the first to offer its services to readers on the U.S. mainland, TIME'S Pacific edition last year carried advertisements from 42 other Japanese concerns, whose products range from chemical fertilizers to sewing machines, photographic equipment, steel tubing and surgical instruments. Like most U.S. advertising salesmen, Hirata is often called on by his clients for a wide assortment of advice. They ask about everything from export methods and the use of English terms to the problem of how to reach the proper market for their products. In providing the answers, Hirata finds that...
Premier Shigeru Yoshida and the other Japanese politicians whom Dulles will see were ready for some close negotiating. The anti-Communist Japanese have little doubt about whose side they are on, but it was as plain as the peak of Mount Fuji that, in return for a pro-U.S. policy, Japan's statesmen intend to squeeze as much U.S. aid as they can out of any peace treaty...