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Died. Taizo Ishizaka, 88, elder statesman of Japanese industry; of a stroke; in Tokyo. A successful insurance executive before World War II, Ishizaka was called from retirement in 1948 to rescue the Toshiba company from bankruptcy, went on to head the electronics giant for 17 years. An affable, scholarly man who made pottery and wrote poetry, he held hundreds of management, advisory and honorary posts in business and public affairs. In the mid-1960s, as chairman of Osaka's Expo '70, the redoubtable Ishizaka pressured a reluctant Premier Eisaku Sato into furnishing ample funds. After twelve years...
Animals No More. Two years of intensive preparations and more than $2 billion (a large part of it for new roads, subways and housing to handle the mobs) have gone into Expo. "Why not?" asked Taizo Ishizaka, president of the Japan Expo Association. "Once in a blue moon, we Japanese must indulge in one colossal binge." Another Japanese businessman, commenting on the cost, predicted: "Nobody outside Japan is going to call us economic animals any longer. If we were, we wouldn't have spent so much for such a thing...
...refuses to help any boy without a college degree, or a girl without a high school education. Once the initial screening is over, Ishizaka gets down to basics. "The luster of the eyes," he says, "often indicates the sexual abilities or inabilities of their owners." The shinier the eyes, the better, and the sprightliest girls of all, he asserts, "are those with eyes that are glistening but look at the same time somewhat wet." It is enough to make a girl want...
Breakneck Pace. Almost daily, letters pour into his home at Matsumoto from men looking for "a girl as pure as the limpid waters in the brooks of the Japan alps" or a young lady "with the most charming eyes," and from girls seeking the "right boy." Ishizaka, who insists upon interviewing all candidates at their homes, works at a breakneck pace: he engineered a mate for the alpinist in only a week and found the necessary charming-eyed lovely in 24 hours. He never asks a fee, leaving that to the generosity of the persons concerned. The largest...
...pairing his customers, Ishizaka looks for several points. He seeks a "combination of the opposites in physique and temperament," but insists that couples come from similar backgrounds...