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...experiencing a wave of nostalgia for "the Pacific War." Every Sunday at 9 a.m., tots around the country gather before the TV to watch "Zero Fighter Hayato" knock a dozen American P-38s or Wildcats from the skies. Plastic-model Zero fighters and picture books are bestsellers from Hokkaido to Kyushu, while adults are now reading a book called Glorious Records, which praises the wartime Burma-Siam railway project that built the bridge over the River Kwai. A new series of junior high school history textbooks, approved by the Ministry of Education, implies that the blame for World...
...mean to suggest, however, that The Idiot is entirely devoid of pleasures, even though most of them are purely visual. Two sequences in particular stand out, one at the beginning, one at the end. When the idiot first returns to his native Hokkaido, some shots of people and horses in the snowy streets have a refreshing, newsreel-like quality. And in the final half hour of the film, the shadow cast by an ornately carved screen takes on the aspect of a patterned hallucination...
River Test. Kanayama plans to hold his next test in the Chitose River on Hokkaido Island. He will release educated baby trout, marked so that they can be recognized, in a stretch of water stocked with hungry and cannibalistic grown-up fish. Marked, unschooled babies will be released also. After a suitable interval, the young trout will be netted to see whether the educated ones have survived better than their unshocked cousins...
Most Americans have not seen a good solar eclipse since 1954, and after this week they will not see another until 1970. This week's performance, clouds permitting, will entertain most of North America. Saturday's show will start at dawn in Japan's northern island, Hokkaido, where the sun will rise with the moon already squarely in front of it. Then the tip of the moon's black, conical shadow will race northeast, crossing the Bering Sea and coming ashore in Alaska just south of the Yukon. West of Canada's Great Slave Lake...
...skating rinks, bowling alleys and on ski slopes made of plastic, Japanese will soon be able to play at one of Japan's most modern resorts, the San-ai Hotel on Hokkaido Island, just an hour's plane ride from Tokyo. Work on the resort began last week when slim and tireless Kiyoshi Ichimura, 62, got permission from his backers to go ahead with the ambitious project. Already one of Japan's fastest rising businessmen, whose nine companies sold $61 million worth of goods last year, Ichimura believes that "to stand still is to lose ground...