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...toughest role to cast was that of the top seadog, Admiral Yamamoto, who engineered the Pearl Harbor attack and is still a hero to many Japanese. The part finally went to an ex-army private, Takeo Kagitani, who is now the 56-year-old president of Takachiho Trading Co. (1967 sales: $27.7 million). Kagitani had no trouble getting a leave from his board. He owns some 90% of the stock in his com pany, which imports Burroughs business machines. The executive cropped his hair in the military style and visited Yamamoto's grave near Tokyo to offer his prayers...
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