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Meanwhile, Japan's YKK Zipper Co. has almost completed a $15 million factory in Macon, Ga., and to give it a touch of home the company will fill the grounds with 2,000 cherry trees. Japanese Developer Tsuguto Kitano has bought Manhattan's Murray Hotel, renamed it after himself, and will open for business next month. Kikkoman Shoya Co. opened a $9,000,000 soy sauce plant last week in Walworth, Wis. Japan's widely diversified Mitsui has revised its former policy of seeking export markets in the U.S. and is now shopping for new American properties...
...imitating the West, has lately acquired both a lost generation and a flaming youth. Currently, the symbol of both is a girl with waist-length black hair, cat's eyes and a fox smile who could be seen last week on the stage of Osaka's Kitano Theater. As she closed her eyes, and with hips swaying began to sing (in alternating English and Japanese verses) an excruciatingly off-key version of Banana Boat Song, her quivering fans rose from their seats and screamed with delight. At 18 Michiko Hamamura is touted, more or less correctly...
Right now the Japanese have their own peculiar understanding. One local group wanted to put police at the adult school door to keep out Communists, "as Communists would disturb free discussion." In Kyoto's Kitano Junior High, Correspondent Welles heard the following discussion among adults...