Word: hiroshi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scriptwriter Naoya Uchimura and Producer Hiroshi Nagayama had done their best to get Eriko married off. Last year they had it all set: Eriko and her suitor would wed, live happily ever after, off the airwaves. But radio men at the U.S. Civilian Information & Education office were horrified, adamantly "recommended" that the show go on. Eriko, they felt, had a mildly democratizing influence on listeners. Says Nagayama: "It was most sorrowful. We couldn't fight back; it was practically an order." Dutifully, Uchimura wrote the groom out of the script, replaced him with a dawdling suitor who would obviously...
...Tokyo's Asahi, which likes to call itself the New York Times of Japan, 30-year-old Hiroshi Nagaoka was only a police reporter in the bureau at Kobe. But like all reporters everywhere, Nagaoka dreamed of the great beat that would make his name & fame...
Cyanide for Supper. To many a Japanese, trying in vain to cope with a U.S. economic program which seemed only to produce less money and more hardships, the old days seemed the best days. At week's end a 42-year-old Tokyo factory worker, Hiroshi Hori, took his wife and five children to view the cherry blossoms in Sumida Park. When they got home Mrs. Hori cooked up some bitter-tasting bean" paste for supper. The four younger children refused to eat it. Next morning they found their father, mother and eldest sister dead of cyanide poisoning...
...heard to mourn their lost youth. Artistically they are often in a state of decline, having begun making an effort to paint neatly and representationally instead of splashing about. Their bumbling attempts to create intelligible pictures are rarely so fine and free as the fruits of innocence. Luckily Painter Hiroshi Nishida is only six, but his first one-man show, scheduled to open in a Tokyo gallery this week, may well be his last...