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...land and had them build a magnificent garden, known as Ritsurin Koen, or Forest of Chestnut Trees, that even today draws visitors from all over Japan. When they come, they see in flourishing Takamatsu, now a city of 240,000, many another sight to please the eye. For Masanori Kaneko, 60, the local governor, has taken a leaf from Matsudaira's book...
MANJIRO, THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA (149 pp.)-Hisakazu Kaneko-Houghton Mifflin...
...history are sometimes more engaging than narratives of great events. Such a book is Manjiro, the Man Who Discovered America, the story of a young Japanese who found his way to America several years before Commodore Matthew Perry opened up Japan to the world in 1854. Japanese Author Hisakazu Kaneko has turned up in Manjiro an engaging subject, and has written his story in a style that has the warmth and charm of genuine naivet...
...Author Kaneko has found a pleasant minor subject and has had the good sense to allot it only the significance it deserves. As far as the people of Japan are concerned, Manjiro was indeed The Man Who Discovered America...
Tokyo's five-month-old tabloid had a ready explanation for its shocker. Editor Yoshio Kaneko was just doing his best to teach his readers Western democratic habits. U.S. nudist camps are noted for purity of thought, said Sun Photo Times; "wouldn't it be a good idea if the members of Japan's Diet [which includes 39 women] deliberated . . . while naked...