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...Shidzue Kato, the most prominent of Japan's 38 new women Diet members, called the trend "wonderful." A divorcee herself, she said: "Japanese women are now getting away from the subservient idea of hanging onto a man whether they like him or not. In all civilized nations, divorce rates are high...
...Emperor system-emerged with a clear-cut victory (about 300 seats). Unexpected was the strength of the Social Democrats, who stand for evolutionary socialism (about 90 seats). The Communists, despite militancy and tight organization, got only five seats. Most revolutionary was the election of 38 women, including Mrs. Shidzue Kato, the former Baroness Ishimoto, famed as the Margaret Sanger of Japan. At least 13 ballots were merely marked "More Food," one was cast for Harry Truman, and a dozen bore the write-in "General MacArthur...
Japan awarded its highest military decoration-the Order of the Golden Kite-to 955 officers and men for feats in the Pacific, to 3,031 more who had fought in China. The list included such ranking officers as Vice Admiral Yukichi Yashire, Rear Admirals Yukio Kato and Toshio Otake, Major Generals Chikegi Usui and Tateo Kato. The interesting thing was not that Japan had so many heroes, but that the heroes were dead when they received the Order of the Golden Kite...
Still in Washington are Kurt Sell of Germany's D.N.B.; Masuo Kato and Clarke Kawakami of Japan's Domei; Kenji Kauno of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi Shimbun. The little man who is no longer there is Count Leone Fumasoni-Biondi of Italy's Stefani Agency, stationed in Washington since 1932-a dark, soft-mannered gentleman whose ancestors have been Vatican officials for four centuries, whose uncle, Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, once Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., now holds the Vatican's Office for the Propagation of the Faith. The Count, in fact, is no Fascist...
...Tokyo, members of the Japanese Whiskers Club held their semi-annual meeting, toasted Naosaburo Kato (left, in cut), claimant to the title of Longest Beard in the Orient...