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...that grisly, excruciatingly detailed study of a samurai's ritual suicide, Japanese Director Masaki Kobayashi sets the theme of a 17th century tragedy on honor in death-and the death of honor. The victims are two ronin, or unemployed samurai left to starve when their lordly masters are disfranchised following a civil...
...police headquarters, the assassin calmly identified himself as Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, told detectives his only regret was failing to kill Communist Sanzo Nosaka and Japan Teachers' Union Chairman Takeshi Kobayashi as well as Asanuma. He had planned to bag all three. The sword, he explained, was a wakizashi, the kind worn by samurai until 1876, when the government forbade people to carry them. He had found it only the week before in the bottom of his father's closet...
...Mitsui cause, engineered the merger of two of the biggest offshoots of Mitsui's prewar trading division in a major deal that will form Japan's largest single trading company, with assets of some $500 million. "The occupation did not kill the zaibatsu," says Economics Professor Ryosei Kobayashi of Tokyo's Senshu University. "It just reorganized them...
...Kobayashi has also staged a musical version of Hamlet and an adaptation of Carmen. His production of Turandot, Puccini's Italianate tragedy of the Orient, became a vehicle for a truckin' chorus...
Today, 82 and frail. Kobayashi rarely leaves his villa near Takarazuka. except for a monthly visit to his theater. Next day he sends cryptic memos to the directors. He still manages to keep his musical empire humming, brings eminent Western concert stars to the town (e.g., Singers Marian Anderson and Helen Traubel, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin). Early this year, he will repossess Takarazuka's Tokyo branch, which the occupation forces had turned into the famed Ernie Pyle movie theater. Last week the old showman ventured forth to take in a special show with a Christmas finale. Sample lyric...