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...This must be the most virtuous of all possible conventions," declared Chief Predictor Hachiro Asano as 100 crack fortunetellers from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and India assembled in Seoul for a three-day meeting that ended last week. Drinking and sex were explicitly barred because, as Asano explained, "We must remain pure" for important responsibilities-that is, agreeing on answers to ten of the world's weightiest questions...
...Emperor's sister-in-law, Princess Chichibu, and 200 other Japanese and foreign dignitaries attended I.C.U.'s formal dedication ceremonies. Said I.C.U.'s first president, Zoologist Hachiro Yuasa, a third-generation Japanese Christian: "International Christian University is fundamentally a university of tomorrow . . . born out of the tragedies of war and dedicated to the proposition that truth and truth alone shall make men and nations free." Requirements for faculty members, as set by President Yuasa: firm scholarship and "dynamic" Christianity...
...Hachiro Yuasa of Tokyo came to the U.S. when he was 18, hoping to find "a land where one could lead a real Christian life." He was not disappointed. For the 15 years of his U.S. career, he studied entomology, practiced Christianity, and learned to call the U.S. "the motherland of my dreams...
...attack at Pearl Harbor found Hachiro Yuasa again on a visit to the U.S.-a thin, spidery little man of 51 who had become one of Japan's top scholars and educators. But before anything else, Yuasa was still a Christian; he decided to stay on in America in protest against the war. From 1942 to 1946 he worked as consultant for a New York interdenomination committee to help U.S. Japanese. "I am 100% Japanese," Yuasa explained, "but I am a Christian Japanese ... I wish to be a symbol of the Church Universal...
...than dollars. Last week, while he worked at his desk at Japan's Doshisha University, which he now heads, Yuasa received a call from the U.S. Military Government asking the loan of some of his professors to give Japanese tax collectors a few pointers in bookkeeping. Said Hachiro Yuasa, smiling: "They realize that we ... know the American way of doing things...