Word: kosaka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World Lightweight Champion Carlos Ortiz: his first defense of the title he won from Joe Brown last April, by trouncing Japan's Teruo Kosaka before 8,000 spectators in a Tokyo sumo wrestling hall. The 135-lb. Ortiz toyed with the windmilling Japanese challenger for four rounds, put him neatly away after 2 min. 32 sec. of the fifth. The fans applauded politely, rose from their straw mats, put on their shoes and went home...
...home of Japanese Businessman Yoshishiko Matsukata, an uncle of U.S. Ambassador Reischauer's Japanese wife Haru; an embassy reception attended by Prime Minister Ikeda and hundreds of other Japanese dignitaries (Ethel wore a white lace dress-with matching hair-bows) ; a dinner given by Japanese Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka; and an appearance on the Japanese television program What's My Secret...
...Moment. Both in and outside the embassy, which has responsibility for 2,469 employees (all but 392 are Japanese), Mr. and Mrs. Reischauer are a major social attraction. After its baseball team scored a 6-5 victory over the Japanese Foreign Office team, led by athletic Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka, the embassy staff gave the ambassador its Most Valuable Player award. At a festival in the seaport where Commodore Perry came ashore in 1853, Reischauer topped the bill. He wore a yukata, Japan...
Last week, at the invitation of the new South Korean government of Premier John Chang, Japan's Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka flew into Seoul, the first Japanese official to set foot on South Korean soil since the end of the war. Though students paraded, shouting, "We still remember your occupation," the official reception was cordial. Kosaka flew back to Tokyo, remarking, "I hope my visit will have an effect like a magic mallet [Japan's version of Aladdin's lamp] which produces inexhaustible treasures...
...desperately to help the rival team win. Not so any more. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II, 51, onetime player at Massachusetts' Milton Academy, smashed out a double and two singles, sparkplugged the team from his shortstop position to an 11-5 victory. Japan's bespectacled Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka, 48, who also played shortstop, hit two hard singles, shared best-player honors with MacArthur...