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...Realist. In Kyoto, Japan, unfrocked for working in a pinball parlor and pawning temple images, Buddhist Monk Sabaichi Okuno remarked: "Even a monk...
...sound stages around Tokyo and the shrine city of Kyoto last week, Japan's six major movie producers and some 20 independents were grinding their cameras at a record-smashing rate. Directors, outfitted in the early Hollywood tradition with dark glasses, sport shirts and berets, roamed the sets shouting such Southern California expressions as "Camera!", "Cut!" Japanese moviemakers, who were second only to the U.S. in the number of feature pictures produced last year, this year expect to complete 319 full-length films...
News from the Instruments. The system had a workout last spring, during the tests of U.S. hydrogen bombs. Dr. Miyake had no advance notice except that traffic in certain sea areas had been restricted, but he kept alert. Early in March he learned that a colleague in Kyoto had observed abnormal variations in atmospheric pressure on March 1, so he collected the records of the government's 13 meteorological stations. Instead of the wavy lines of normal pressure changes, the charts showed jagged variations on March 1, March 27, April 26, and May 5. The first and last were...
...three months ago when a Korean confidence man named Masutomi Ito was arrested for bilking thousands of small investors of some $3,000,000 in an investment-trust racket. Swindler Ito spent part of his plunder on such delicacies as broiled eels in Tokyo and an expensive mistress in Kyoto. He admitted that he had continued to solicit funds even after his investment company had gone bankrupt, blandly told police: "If this constitutes fraud, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about...
...least one oldster was in hearty agreement. "Before I came to this meeting," said a grey-haired widow from Kyoto, "I was planning to commit suicide. Now I have definitely made up my mind to wait a while...