Word: honshu
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...Japanese task force would soon arrive to drive the enemy away. This book is his account of his 16-year struggle in the jungle and his torment upon return. It is disjointed in places, and it suffers somewhat from a translator bent on changing Itō's rural Honshu argot into phony British slang. But nothing can destroy its authenticity as one of the toughest survival stories that any man has lived to tell...
Along the craggy coastline of Honshu stretches the "Tokaido corridor," pegged at one end by Tokyo and at the other by Kobe. Within its compass lie Japan's six largest cities and an urban-industrial complex that produces 67% of its manufactured goods-along with most of the problems of identity and adaptation found in today's Japanese society. Under the chill gaze of sacred Mount Fuji, a man-made morass of concrete, steel and glass belches smoke and grime in a manner quite contradictory to the verses of the 8th century poet Akahito Yamabe, who wrote...
...samurai-turned-sakebrewer, Sato was born in the somnolent town of Tabuse, on Honshu's far eastern coast, just 100 miles from the Straits of Tsushima, where in Sato's fifth year Admiral Heihachiro Togo destroyed the Russian fleet. That was the year of Japan's greatest military success, but little of it rubbed off on Eisaku. Sato's older brother, Nobusuke Kishi,* was the star of the family, graduated second in his class at Tokyo University law school (Sato was much lower). In 1941, Kishi became one of the youngest Cabinet ministers in Japanese history...
...appeared that the major issue in the campaign would be the charges of corruption that had wreathed his Cabinet in "Black Mist." Not so. Japan's newspapers have been dominated-and the public mind captured-by the chaotic events next door in Red China. Campaigning from snowy northern Honshu to sunny Shikoku, Sato was quick to take advantage of the public preoccupation. "We must never become like our neighbor," Sato cried in village after village last week. "Over there, there's no freedom, and without freedom, how could one find life worth living?" Sato's suggestion...
...Honshu sake bottler, Sato earned a degree from Tokyo University law school, started work as a government railways stationmaster, quickly rose to the post of Deputy Minister of Railways. As such, he caught the eye of postwar Premier Shigeru Yoshida, who made Sato his chief Cabinet secretary. Further boosted by another Premier, Nobusuke Kishi, who was his elder brother,* Sato went on to become a live wire in five Cabinets, played a leading role in Japan's economic miracle (his first name means literally "Prosperity Maker"). So smooth are Sato's looks that he has been called...