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Grand Prix. The efforts of the radio and camera men have encouraged other Japanese industries to follow suit. Says Koji Kato, director of Alps Shoji toy company: "Past experience shows that flimsy, cheap toys are the best way to lose a market. We are now working to make toys more durable, safer, and at the same time more advanced than foreign makes." U.S. Toymaker Louis Marx is giving the industry a hand, recently went to Japan with a plan to reorganize the entire Japanese toy industry by supplying U.S. technicians, leasing machines, supplying designs and working out a "division...
When his first son Yoshimitsu was born, Farmer Koji Matsuzaka of Shinshushinmachi, a small mountain town 160 miles northwest of Tokyo, boasted: "He will grow up to be a giant." The proud father did not know how close his prophecy would come to the truth. By the time Yoshimitsu entered senior high at 16, he towered 6 ft. 7 in. At this time he began to have blinding headaches and tired so easily that he spent most of his time lying at home on a tatami. School doctors diagnosed Yoshimitsu's trouble as a hormone imbalance, recommended that...
...Premier Hideki Tojo, still on trial as a war criminal, got a rather wistful new name, now that he had junked Shintoism for Buddhism. The name, to be chiseled on his tombstone: Eishoin Shakuji Komyoro Koji. Approximate English translation: "By Buddha's grace, all sins committed while living are absolved...