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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...
...Kiyoshi Saito's Cat was designed, engraved and printed by the artist, with an eye to self-expression rather than sales value. No great shakes technically, Saito uses the grain of the wood for texture, as did Norway's Edvard Munch. The picture's bold black outlining and rich background color are strictly school-of-Paris. Only its suave, half-humorous air is Oriental...
...Women. Back in Hiroshima, Kiyoshi Kikawa lies in the hospital for bomb victims. His arms and back are covered with a mass growth of scar tissue called keloids. Said he last week: "Tell them in America that I would have been happy to die, but I am living with this [pointing to his back]. Something good must come of this. I now want to be sent to the U.S. so doctors can experiment with my body. It does not matter if I die so long as I can be of some use to a world of peace...
...played last week in Tokyo.* Nervous, white-haired Michio Ito, who had spent 20 years in the U.S. directing dance productions, had rehearsed the cast for two months. The 49-man Tokyo Philharmonic had been drilled on the tricky rhythms of Sullivan's music. Kiyoshi Takagi, as Ko-Ko, had learned how to sing "teet wiro. teet wiro." The producers had gambled a whopping 1,800,000 yen ($36,000) on the production. Reserved seats went for 80 yen, the highest theater prices in Japanese history...