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...Agency. It is recruiting human bloodhounds to sniff out sources of the foul odors that generate 10,000 complaints each year from the fastidious Japanese. Officials have used machines to track down smells, but these olfactometers are no substitute for the human nostril. "Measurement of offensive odors," says Manami Fujikura of the agency's special-pollution division, "needs expert , knowledge and technique." And a strong stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Job Stinks | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...doubles next day, the U.S. veteran (32) Bill Talbert and young (20) Tony Trabert, unbeaten over a two-year span, made short work (67 min.) of the Japanese pair of Nakano and Goro Fujikura. After breezing through the first two, 6-0, 6-2, the U.S. pair ran into trouble, trailed 1-4 in the third set, but finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kumagae Comes Back | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

When Berley Winton, poultry expert of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, was informed by the Press last week that a Japanese farmer named Kichi Fujikura claimed a new world's record of 361 eggs in a year for his Leghorn hen, he grudgingly exclaimed: "That's mighty fine, but the farmer's claims are unofficial. We don't recognize them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Non-Recognition | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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