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...whose origins in northern Japan are obscure, first burst upon the public consciousness as a prewar activist in right-wing causes. He has been jailed three times for a total of seven years. He was imprisoned by the Japanese for involvement in the 1936 assassination of former Premier Makoto Saito and again by the Americans as a Class-A war-crimes suspect (he was later released without trial). He became wealthy during World War II by supplying the Japanese navy and, by his account, "bringing home truckloads of diamonds and platinum" from territories occupied by Japan. After...
...Makoto Ikeue was 20 when he wrote that poem. Shortly afterward, he killed himself in the lovers' lane where he had often met the girl he made pregnant. Before Ikeue's suicide, the girl had an abortion because her family refused to let her marry him. Why? Because Ikeue was a buraku-min, one of some 3,000,000 "hamlet people," a caste-like group whose members have suffered economic and social discrimination for 15 generations in Japan...
...banker puts it. The fact that Mitsubishi's wages pump $1.2 million annually into the local economy, and that the company expects to increase production in San Angelo 50% by 1972, undoubtedly helps. Some final signs of acceptance: the San Angelo Country Club this month made Plant President Makoto Kuroiwa a member-and he now asks the Texans to call him Mike...
Beheiren's founder is Novelist Makoto Oda, 38. He launched the new wave...
...trade deficit in 1963 to what is expected to be a substantial surplus in the first quarter of this year. Because business confidence has suffered in the process, the Bank of Japan has begun to ease up, last month shaved its loan rate from 6.57% to 6.2%. Governor Makoto Usami, one of the most powerful influences on the Japanese economy, feels that the rate should soon be cut even more...