Word: haruki
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Bridge. Though somewhat more literate, the story is just as juicy as most U.S. radio serials. The hero, Haruki, and the heroine, Machiko, meet on the night of May 24, 1945 during a great B-29 firebomb raid on Tokyo. Caught for a few breathless minutes on the Sukiyabashi bridge, they agree to meet on the same spot six months later-if they are still alive. Haruki shows up on the appointed day, but his girl has been sent away by her wicked uncle and forced into a marriage with a government official. When she and her husband return...
Kimi is so popular with its fans that thousands of infants are being named Machiko and Haruki. An estimated two of every five Japanese girls wear turbans of white wool, just as Machiko does. The book version of Kimi has sold more than 500,000 copies. The movie made a record postwar profit of almost $700,000, and three top studios are battling for the rights to a sequel...
...wind up his show when it goes off the air next month. Forbidden by his employers, the Japan Broadcasting Corp., to 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...