Word: kazuko
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...typical programmed celebration was the recent wedding of Koji Takahashi, 26, an architect, to Kazuko Hasegawa, 23, at Meiji Memorial Hall, Tokyo's most prestigious marriage parlor. After the simple Shinto ceremony, capped by a sip of ritual sake, the groom, in cutaway coat and silk tie, and the bride, in a dazzling kimono, sat down with their 125 guests to consume a banquet, including lobster salad and ice cream. The master of ceremonies introduced important people from the couple's life-parents, teachers, bosses and friends. The guests offered presents. The current favored gift in Japan...
Bizet and Bach. The notion of a tour came from Kazuko Hillyer, a Japanese-born concert manager based in New York. When she put the idea to General Manager Schuyler Chapin two years ago, he replied: "Go away and don't bother me. That will cost millions." It did cost that, $2.5 million to be precise, but Hillyer found someone to pick up the tab: the Nagoya-based Chubu Nippon Broadcasting Co., which decided to sponsor the tour in honor of its 25th anniversary...
...will try to goad Tanaka into disastrous faux pas. Presumably also they will needle him about his yeasty private business and personal interests; he has made questionable land deals and one Tokyo newspaper, the Mainichi Daily News, charged that some of those deals involved a former Tokyo geisha named Kazuko Tsuji, who is alleged to have been Tanaka's mistress and the mother of two of his children...
Utah, from Corvallis, Ore., to Washington, D.C. Prior to its visit to the U.S., the Royal Philharmonic will have presented four gala TIME-LIFE concerts at Festival Hall in London. Rudolf Kempe is the conductor, assisted by Lawrence Foster. The tour is under the management of Impresario Kazuko Hillyer...
Their subsequent stories to newsmen that six men had died fighting for her favors annoys Kazuko greatly. "Actually," she said with indignation last week, "only two died because of me. One was shot and the other was stabbed...