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...addition, we still worry about some of the sources of University donations. Earlier this year Michael Kojima, a California-based business consultant, donated $205,000 to the Kennedy School. Last week, it was disclosed that many of his former associates say he owes them hundreds of thousands of dollars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opening the Old Regime | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...committed suicide in 1927, is still considered the most Occidental, as well as one of the most influential, Japanese writers. His famed Rashomon was made into an unforgettable movie and later a Broadway play. In this new collection of ten stories, he is badly served by Translator Takashi Kojima, who has used almost every cliché in the English language. But even so, Akutagawa's combination of savagery and detachment can raise Western hackles and dampen Western brows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Jan. 5, 1962 | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...plastic surgeon in Tokyo caddishly blabbed that the bosom of the new Miss Universe, Japan's Akiko Kojima, is bolstered with interior plastics, declared that he had given shapely (37-23-38) Akiko injections just before she went to California. The doctor's statement drew a blushing denial from Akiko, got a stormy rise out of her mother. "Terrible! Terrible!" cried Mrs. Hisako Kojima. "How could she have had an operation? She's the same size as last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Shrieking the Japanese equivalent of "Oh, my gosh!" Tokyo Fashion Model Akiko Kojima. 22, exuded sheer joy at the happy news. She was the new Miss Universe, the first Asian ever to take the crown in the international beauty contest, held last week for the eighth year in Long Beach, Calif. Burbled Akiko over her fast-breaking curves (37-23-38): "I am floating on a cloud and living a dream!" Overwhelmed by new-found fondness for the U.S., she also announced that she wants to live in the U.S. eventually, raise a family, be "a lovely wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 3, 1959 | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...another." But just before the Miss Universe contest, Sue Ingersoll decided to withdraw after all-not, she insisted, because she was giving in to the archbishop, but only because contest officials had held her "virtually a prisoner." Winner of the contest at Long Beach, Calif.: Japan's Akiko Kojima, a fashion model (see PEOPLE) who comes from a Shinto family but says she has no religion herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sue & the Charisma | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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