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...Kameo Ito, chief of the government's Yamagata meteorological observatory, bases his theory on a close study of the air waves from U.S. and Soviet tests. When a bomb is exploded on the ground or near it, says Ito, the shock waves spreading upward into the lower stratosphere are lengthened and delayed by air conditions there. Eventually they are refracted downward and reach microbarographs in Japan a few minutes behind the shorter waves that have passed directly through the lower atmosphere...
Family Man. In Tokyo, Akira Ito was arrested for stealing 65 cameras valued at $3.900, despite his explanation that he badly needed the money to support his four mistresses and their four children...
...stink began to rise three months ago when a Korean confidence man named Masutomi Ito was arrested for bilking thousands of small investors of some $3,000,000 in an investment-trust racket. Swindler Ito spent part of his plunder on such delicacies as broiled eels in Tokyo and an expensive mistress in Kyoto. He admitted that he had continued to solicit funds even after his investment company had gone bankrupt, blandly told police: "If this constitutes fraud, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about...
Geisha Galas. As investigators looked deeper into Ito's financial shenanigans, they found a trail that led, indirectly, to scores of respected businessmen and government officials. A Tokyo moneylender whom police linked to Ito's financial operations said that these were small compared to the way subsidized shipbuilders used government money to bribe officials for more subsidies. The moneylender backed up his story with a list of wild geisha parties thrown by shipbuilders and subcontractors for government officials, including seven members of Yoshida's Cabinet. Altogether, 600 geishas were involved in the parties. Soon 100 suspects, among...
...introduce the sordid business of jail. At one flower-viewing he nabbed a thief who had filched a pair of ladies' bloomers, and hauled the miscreant off to headquarters. All in all, he captured close to 3,000 Nip dips, including the acknowledged master of them all, Ito Tamotsu. These incidents were usually conducted in a spirit of professional courtesy. "Ah, Tamotsu," said Utsugi when he copped the notorious Ito with his hand in an alien pocket for perhaps the 19th time, "I have caught you once again." "So you have," acknowledged Tamotsu with...