Word: hirakawa
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...food might simply be a righty being fed from the left. Some studies take place in people's homes, where pets and their owners are watched at mealtime. Humans, Iams has found, like to see dogs wag their tails while they're eating. "Then we know," says Diane Hirakawa, Iams' chief of R. and D., "when the dog sees the product, that tail better be wagging." Iams may not know why animals eat the chow, but it knows who buys it. --J.K. Reported by Maggie Sieger/Dayton
...very cutting edge." Takahashi's detractors disagree. They insist he's more of a fashion DJ, sampling patterns and designs from others and mixing them up to create his own street style instead of developing a unique vision. "Takahashi doesn't think about originality," carps fashion critic Takeji Hirakawa, "only about copying...
...Hirakawa, the Arthur Godfrey of Japanese radio, gets such enthusiastic letters from some of his 1,250,000 fans that he had to remind one admirer: "The war is over, and writing letters in your own blood is undemocratic." Like his burly U.S. counterpart, dapper, 48-year-old Joe Hirakawa is continually swamped with presents: hand-knitted sweaters, fresh vegetables, wine, porcelain vases. "It's wonderful," he sighs. "Not what they send but the consideration behind...
...works hard at being a radio teacher of English, which he interlards with American slang dating back to the '20s. "You bet your life!" a Hirakawa-trained Japa-nese will cry, and "Atta girl!" and "Boy oh boy!" Nicknamed "Uncle Come-Come" because the theme song of his weekday program is an adaptation of the old Japanese children's song Come, Come, Everybody, Joe teaches his listeners about 30 new words each show. He uses short dialogues that have such everyday applications as giving road directions to a stranger or shopping in a department store. Every Friday...
...Quakers, unaccustomed to the light of publicity, he was afterwards upset .to see his diplomatic slip in print. Two of Japan's 700 Friends talked to reporters before the press agent of the conference, nervous John Reich of the Friends Service Committee, could stop them. Said Quaker Seiju Hirakawa: "The present invasion of China by Japan is motivated by a militaristic clique which is trying to protect the Manchukuo experiment ... a colossal failure. Ninety per cent of Japan is against the present undeclared war. . . ." Said Ryumei Yamano: ''In Japan we have no freedom of speech...
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