Word: ishizaka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...knows best how to help boy meet girl. Not so, as yet at any rate, in Japan, where the professional matchmaker still plies his ancient and honorable trade with a gusto no computer could possibly match. Perhaps the most successful in Japan today is wispy, 73-year-old Genkichi Ishizaka, who is perfectly certain that he knows the secret of making a marriage stick...
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...
Forgotten Hatred. Addressing a Tokyo meeting of the seven-nation Asian Productivity Organization last week. Foreign Minister Ohira put this drive in idealistic terms: "Asian prosperity is indispensable for the establishment of world peace.'' But wily Toshiba Electric Chairman Taizo Ishizaka. 76. puts his finger on a more immediate reason why Japan should help its neighbors. "Regional economic systems are the wave of the future,'' he says. "It is natural, therefore, that Japan should be interested in strengthening economic ties with her Asian neighbors." Hopelessly isolated from joining any of the world's common markets...