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Sato, in the meantime, spent 13 years in Kyushu, Japan's remote and rural southern island, working as a railways bureaucrat. There he learned the trick of office consensus, if only to keep the trains moving. Twice he was sent to China as a railways adviser during the Japanese war there, and during World War II served as director of a motor pool. He also contracted a serious case of typhus, and while recuperating read an article on the passivity of the Asian masses by U.S. Author Pearl Buck that changed his way of thinking. "Reviewing the past...
Next target was Eikichi Kambayashi-yama, director-general of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. He was charged with ordering a lavish homecoming parade-replete with sake, flag-waving schoolchildren, and an official army band-when he returned to his prefecture on Kyushu in September. Kam-bayashiyama last week told the Diet's Cabinet committee: "I am sorry; I will humbly search my heart, and I will be more careful, hereafter." Though the opposition shrieked, "Shame on you! Resign! Resign!", the director-general did not quit...
...quite sure what will happen if he tampers too much with natural forces. Since the atmosphere is an ecological container analogous to a Gemini capsule, any major change in the weather at one place is bound to affect the whole worldwide weather system. To destroy a typhoon threatening Kyushu might deprive a drought-ridden corner of India of needed rain or even parch Eastern Europe. To melt the icecap would almost certainly inundate much of the U.S. seaboard. Thus the masters of controlled weather would have to make sticky international and intranational decisions about which areas would get the good...
There was Oklahoma's hearty Governor Henry Bellmon, 44, running around the island of Kyushu handing out Japanese-language recipes for "Okrahoma" pecan pie. The mystified Japanese smiled politely, and finally someone pointed out that hardly anyone in Japan had ever heard of pecan pie. Well, boomed Bellmon as he wound up a U.S.-Japan Governors' conference tour, "that's all the more reason to push it. Why, man, this is virgin country for Oklahoma pecans...
...wave of nostalgia for "the Pacific War." Every Sunday at 9 a.m., tots around the country gather before the TV to watch "Zero Fighter Hayato" knock a dozen American P-38s or Wildcats from the skies. Plastic-model Zero fighters and picture books are bestsellers from Hokkaido to Kyushu, while adults are now reading a book called Glorious Records, which praises the wartime Burma-Siam railway project that built the bridge over the River Kwai. A new series of junior high school history textbooks, approved by the Ministry of Education, implies that the blame for World...