Word: hiroshi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honor Among Usurers. In Osaka, Japan, Hockshop Proprietor Hiroshi Ueda, president of the local pawnbrokers' association, was fined 500,000 yen and kicked out of the cartel for charging customers 6% interest a month, a rate out of line with the customary bite...
Like every other literate country, Japan has a problem in teachers' substandard pay. Writing in Keizai Shincho, one of Tokyo's academic journals, Economics Professor Hiroshi Sato of Hitotsubashi University explains something about the special woes of Japan's teachers, and a lot more about himself...
...Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Sergeant Hiroshi Miyamura, 28, who spent 28 months in a Communist prison after killing more than 50 enemy soldiers in singlehanded night combat in Korea (TIME...
ARMY SERGEANT HIROSHI H. MIYAMURA, 27, a Nisei, of Gallup, N. Mex.: ". . . Wielding his bayonet in close hand-to-hand combat, killing approximately ten of the enemy . . . bayoneted his way through infiltrated enemy soldiers to a second [machine] gun emplacement and . . . killed more than 50 of the enemy...
After his release from a Communist prison camp in Korea last week, a thin, boyish-looking Nisei soldier from Gallup, N.Mex. went through Freedom Village's routine processing: a puff of DDT powder, a quick physical examination and a cup of ice cream. Then, to his astonishment, Sergeant Hiroshi H. Miyamura, 27, was pulled out of line and led to a rosette of microphones in the press area. While cameras whirred, Brigadier General Ralph Osborne, commanding officer of Freedom Village, made an announcement. "I want to take this occasion to welcome the greatest VIP, the most distinguished guest...