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BORN. To Toshiro Mifune, 62, ruggedly handsome film actor often referred to as the John Wayne of Japan (Rashomon, 1950; The Seven Samurai, 1954; and the TV movie Shōgun, 1980); and Mika Kitagawa, 33, his longtime girlfriend and sometime movie actress: his third child, her first (he is still married to his first wife); a girl; in Tokyo. Name: Mika...
...Japanese art of wood-block prints flourished in the late 18th century when masters like Kitagawa Utamaro illustrated kyoka, a form of comic verse. In A Chorus of Birds (Metropolitan Museum of Art-Viking; unpaginated; $17.95), the season's most unusual book, Utamaro's animated sparrows and hawks, roosters and owls move through a fused world of nature, art and literature. A further enchantment: the volume is not conventionally bound; the accordion-pleated illustrations open into a 30-ft. frieze...
...Neighbors put up crude signs reading "Little Tokyo, One Mile" near Kowalick's farm. Ed Kowalick stayed stubbornly silent, and the five Japanese he had imported from an Arizona relocation center huddled together around a table in their little house. They decided to stick it out. Said Frank Kitagawa, their spokesman: "We are willing to suffer if we can win pursuit of happiness for future generations of our people, and a chance to educate our kids like Americans...
Said Spokesman Kitagawa sadly: "When we appear on the street we walk like thin men, trying to be inconspicuous...