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Similarly, if TIME insists that the Japanese call their mountain "Mr. Fuji" [TIME, Aug. 21], it might as well say that the Japanese call "God" "paper" and "paper" "God" simply because the two words are homonyms (along with the word for hair-all being transliterated as kami...
...inevitable as a cheese crouton in tomato bisque is Fujiyama in the background of a Japanese print. To Japanese the symmetrical, snow-shawled, 12,395-foot-high cone is sacred. They call it "Mr. Fuji," and climb it in droves, usually starting at sundown and taking about twelve hours. Seeing dawn from the rim of Fuji's long-dead crater is considered a sort of virtuously ecstatic act, like seeing a vision. Last week 13 disabled Japanese war veterans declared their intention of "demonstrating national spirit" by stumping up Mr. Fuji on their honorable peg legs...
...Against the $5,000,000 per year which the U. S. spends for Japanese cotton cloth, Japan spends about $110,000,000 per year for U. S. raw cotton. Last week news of the U. S. tariff boost caused Yoshihisa Shikamura, managing director of Japan's great Fuji Gas Spinning Co., to exclaim: "Our cotton industry will suffer a severe blow, and it is necessary to take immediate countermeasures. It would be impossible to prohibit all American cotton imports, but we can reduce them by 20% or 30%, by substituting cotton from Egypt, Brazil, Manchukuo and China...
...came Kodan Club* a light magazine containing old historical romances recited by professional storytellers, folk tales preserved by word of mouth from generation to generation. A boys' magazine called Shonen Club was intended to teach sound morals and national pride in a familiar chatty style. Omoshiro ("Interesting") Club (now Fuji) was inspired by the Curtis magazines in the U. S. "An organ for all that was interesting and amusing, light and soothing," it was designed to sell at a low price and develop into a popular advertising medium. No. 5, Gendai ("Present Generation") was a serious magazine of the review...
...wife, the Countess Tet-suko Togo, had been bedridden with neuralgia. But at the clink of the Emperor's bottles she rose painfully to take her place beside her husband's wooden bed in a little room bare of all decoration but a print of Mount Fuji...