Word: kiyoshi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most popular of the moderns, Kiyoshi Saito, 52, has achieved a success almost worthy of the top Ukiyo-e artists. In 1955 he exhibited 67 of his pieces in the U.S., in a grand gesture gave them all to the University of Michigan. In debt, like most of his contemporaries, to Western influence and a Western audience, Saito lately visited ancient Kyoto to recapture special Japanese qualities he feels his works lack, ruefully muses: "We have lost our Japanese origins. I keep on going to Kyoto to try to rediscover them." But to a Western eye, his origins are unmistakable...
Staunch Friend. The Times's high regard for Western journalistic methods is to a large extent the legacy of Kiyoshi Togasaki, a San Francisco-born newsman (University of California, '20) who ran the paper for 14 years until his retirement from active management last January. He was succeeded as president by Shintaro Fukushima, 49, a tough onetime diplomat. Fukushima is one of the West's staunchest supporters in Japan. Says he: "The only way Japan can live is in the sphere of the free world. We'll continue to say that in our editorials...
...Shigeko's was one of the stubborn cases suffering both contractions and keloid growths (in effect, tumors of scar tissue). Shigeko could not work. She had no hope of marriage. And at the Nagaragawa Methodist Church she met scores of other girls in like plight. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto called them "The Hiroshima Maidens...
Last week it reviewed the life of Kiyoshi Tanimoto. the Japanese Methodist minister who is the guardian of the 25 Hiroshima girls now in the U.S. to get plastic surgery for their A-bomb scars...
Postfab. In Tokyo, Businessman Kiyoshi Muraki complained to police that since the last time he had looked, a week before, a 20-man crew of "real-estate thieves" had dismantled and carried away the two-story, ten-room frame building he was intending to remodel...