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Minolta seemed unperturbed by the Nikon announcement. Said Minolta President Hideo Tashima: "Nikon's move is welcomed, although we expect the competition will intensify. The pie will grow bigger if everyone takes part." The field in fact may soon grow crowded. Canon, Japan's largest camera maker, is expected to introduce a similar 35-mm model later this year. Experts say Olympus and Ricoh are readying their own versions...
...side effect of promoting hair growth everywhere on the body, probably because it increases blood supply to the hair follicles. Trying to make a virtue of necessity, Upjohn began a number of studies in which minoxidil ointment was rubbed onto the scalp. In Washington, D.C., early this month, Dr. Hideo Uno, of the University of Wisconsin, reported that "minoxidil stopped the natural process of balding" in monkeys that normally lose their hair. So far, results in humans have been less clear-cut. "There is no question that minoxidil can stimulate growth in some patients," says San Francisco Dermatologist Vera Price...
Meanwhile, a Soviet diplomat called at the Foreign Office in Tokyo and claimed for Moscow whatever treasure was found; his stand was backed by Kyushu University's Hideo Takabayashi, a professor of international law. Abandoned warships, said Takabayashi, unlike abandoned merchantmen, continue to belong to the governments whose flag they once flew. Not so, said the Japanese Foreign Office. The find, it held, belonged to neither the Soviet nor the Japanese government...
...only DDT, which Japanese farmers use mainly on fruit trees, but also BHC, a pesticide that is widely credited with making Japan a self-sufficient rice producer. "We're still in the dark on what residual BHC and DDT will do to the human system," says Dr. Hideo Fukuda of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. "But we've decided that it is wise to ban them sooner rather than later...
...incident is no longer a subject for jurists," said Tokyo University Professor Hideo Fujiki. "It's already one for the historians." Not quite. The incident occurred in 1952, when 6,000 demonstrators shouting "Yankee go home!" and demanding a new government clashed with 1,000 police amidst the fragrant pine groves and the graveled walkways of the plaza outside Tokyo's Imperial Palace; two died and more than 1,400 were injured...