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...October and assign two others to open next season in Tokyo. Japan's association with American baseball, of course, goes back to Babe Ruth. Just last November, on a typical All-Star tour, the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser capped his nearly scoreless autumn by yielding a Ruthian homer to Fujio Tamura of the Nippon Ham Fighters ("I was told he couldn't hit a curve ball"). But Japan is importing all sports now, and the Los Angeles Rams will confront the San Francisco 49ers there in August...
...heart of hearts Nakasone must have agreed. For in addition to the anger swirling around him, there was deep irony in his situation. Just last month the Prime Minister invoked the term ayamachi when he fired his Education Minister, Masayuki Fujio, for having infuriated half the Orient. In a magazine article Fujio claimed that Korea bore some responsibility for Japan's deeply resented 1910-45 occupation of the peninsula and, moreover, that Japanese atrocities in Nanking during 1937 were acceptable in the context of military conflict. Having fired his top educator for such a profound national and ethnic offense, Nakasone...
...land where harmony is prized, especially in politics, Masayuki Fujio's stance was uncharacteristically defiant. "If I resign," said Japan's Education Minister, "it would mean going back on my statements." Since Fujio would not resign, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone fired him. It was the first time in 34 years that a Japanese Cabinet member had been dismissed...
...reason for the ouster was an interview in which Fujio said that the "Korean side has some responsibility" for Japan's 1910 annexation of that country, since Korean representatives had sanctioned the act. He also excused the 1937 "rape of Nanking," during which some 200,000 Chinese were massacred by Japanese troops...
...Canon's turn. At a New York City press conference last week, Fujio Mitarai, president of the Japanese company's U.S. subsidiary, formally introduced the SVS (for still-camera video system), a six-piece array of equipment that includes a 2.2-lb. electronic camera. Like Sony's earlier product, the SVS records images as impulses that can be transmitted electronically. Canon U.S.A. says the SVS will be available in August...