Word: ichiro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shabby, kindly, skeptical old Ichiro Oga, a onetime Tokyo University professor known as "Professor Lotus," planted microphones by the blossoms in Shinobazu Pond to settle, once & for all, the explosive question. The microphones picked up no sound, and ever since the professor has scoffed at those who claim to have heard the lotus. But last week, like the others, Professor Lotus himself was listening again in the Tokyo swamps. He heard nothing. But there were those who did. Some told him the sound was like "kotsu." Some thought it was more like "quew," very softly spoken...
Catch. In Tokyo, Ichiro Akimoto, 60, advertised for a bride to share the tidy income he makes rolling new cigarettes from butts, heard from 2,100 eager applicants...
...shadow of a shady past rose last week to smite ambitious Ichiro Hatoyama. His Liberal Party had won a thumping plurality in Japan's first postwar Diet elections; after long hesitation Premier Shidehara had recommended the stocky, 63-year-old politico to the Emperor as his successor. Then the Allied Supreme Commander spoke. "The Japanese Government," said a MacArthur directive, "having failed to act on its own responsibility, the Supreme Commander has determined the facts relative to Hatoyama's eligibility . . . finds he is an undesirable person." Hatoyama...
...with militarism, it would not be difficult to strike at MacArthur by bringing charges against members of any government that might be formed. Premier Kijuro Shidehara was about to resign because he had received little support in the recent elections; the man who had received the most support was Ichiro Hatoyama, head of the Liberal Party, who was well-smeared with anti-democratic stain (TIME, April...
...last week, after the returns were in Ichiro Hatoyama recovered his confidence. As chief of Japan's biggest party, he pressed for a new Government, with himself as premier...