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Into the Volcano. The show was originated and is written by Kazuo Kikuta, 46, whose own life reads like a soap opera. Born in Formosa, he was taken from his parents (described in the newspapers as "ogres") at the age of three, because they kept him trussed up like a ham and suspended from a beam in the living room. By the time he was twelve, Kikuta had gone through six foster fathers; the last one sold him to an Osaka pharmacist for $50. Escaping, Kikuta finally made his way to Tokyo, landed a job as assistant scriptwriter...
Since the Japanese, unlike U.S. listeners, demand that soap operas eventually be brought to a conclusion, Kikuta's present problem is how to wind up his show when it goes off the air next month. Forbidden by his employers, the Japan Broadcasting Corp., to reveal or even speculate on events to come, Kikuta will only say, "I should like to see a sad-happy ending." Radio listeners are predicting that 1) Haruki and Machiko will marry and she will then die in childbirth, or 2) Haruki and Machiko will both climb Mount Fuji and make a double suicide dive...
...Riverside Drive, Kikuta Nakagawa, one of the many Japanese artists who display their jocose and oriental sneers in the Independents' salon, neatly portrayed a grotesque fat woman walking on the path and leading by the hand a little child who was, one could presume, one of many...
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