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Whatever the specifics, Madame Ky was only one of the tens of thousands of Asian women who flock every year to plastic surgeons to make themselves "more charming" to their husbands and boy friends-or even to get ahead in the business world. "These days," says Dr. Jiro Minagawa, who heads Tokyo's plush Minagawa Cosmetic Clinic, "girls come in and go out much as they go to the beauty salon to have their hair done." Dr. Pham Ba Vien, dean of Saigon's practitioners of chirurgie esthétique, agrees. "Show a woman something different...
Brainchild of a five-man engineering team headed by wispy Jiro Horikoshi, designer of World War II's deadly Zero fighter, the YS 11 is a response to mounting Japanese sentiment that "Japan must get its own skies back." Grounded by Occupation edicts from the end of World War II until 1952, the once potent Japanese aircraft industry has fluttered along since then by producing a handful of U.S.-designed planes under license...
Captain Schmitt, officially absolved of blame in the crash, offered his apologies to the townspeople, through the press, and 35 airmen attended Buddhist funeral services for the children. Though Kame-jiro Senaga, leader of the pro-Communist Minren Party, tried to make political capital out of the accident, no one else did, and most Okinawans seemed genuinely impressed by U.S. rescue efforts following the crash. And any critics would have to ignore a startling safety record: the crash caused the first Okinawan fatalities in 14 years of U.S. occupation...
...Died. Jiro Minami, 81, onetime hard-drinking, samurai-style Japanese army general (at 60 he was a good fencer, an expert with the broadsword), war minister in 1931, when the Japanese army marched into Manchuria, ambassador and commander-in-chief in Manchukuo 1934-36, tyrannical governor general of Korea 1936-42; of uremic poisoning; in Kamakura, Japan. In 1945, Minami was ordered arrested by General MacArthur with ten other class A war criminals; he was paroled last year from Tokyo's Sugamo Prison because of ill health...
HOMECOMING, by Jiro Osaragi (303 pp.; Knopf; $3.75). Billed as a major achievement of Japan's postwar literature, the novel at its best is an unblinking account of the high cost of survival in a defeated country. At its worst, Homecoming plays the old tearjerking Enoch Arden plot to the accompaniment of samisens instead of violins. Kyogo Moriya is a fiftyish Japanese ex-naval officer who sits out the first part of World War II in self-exile in Singapore because of a youthful gambling scandal. There a svelte adventuress two-times him into jail. Back in Japan after...