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...story of the Japanese submarine which sank the U.S.S. Chicago. The first Japanese book about World War II that was not a tale of defeat, I-58 sold 100,000 copies, has been followed by a spate of similar war books as well as a monthly magazine called Maru. Almost entirely devoted to eyewitness accounts of World War II actions, e.g., "Dogfight over Rabaul." Maru has become the bible of many a Japanese teenager. Wrote one young reader: "I felt an inexplicable satisfaction when I learned from your splendid magazine that although Japan was ultimately defeated, the armed forces were...
From the dinky little salvage vessel Daiei Maru (a misnomer, for it means Great Prosperity), Oyama plunged into Nagasaki Bay in hopes of salvaging enough scrap iron to make it worth the effort and risk. Four times he went down 192 ft. with nothing untoward. Raised to the Daiei Maru's deck after his fifth, hour-long descent, he collapsed in pain. His shipmates, unversed in medicine but with a well-grounded fear of the bends, slapped Oyama's helmet back on him, stuffed his diving suit with lead weights, and dumped him back over the side-down...
...three hours they raised him only 60 ft. Then the wind changed and freshened: the Daiei Maru had to seek more sheltered waters. And so began one of the most amazing treatments in the history of medicine. Oyama was hoisted up, the ship moved to calmer waters, and he was promptly dunked again in 72 ft. After twelve hours of sitting there on an iron bar, Oyama signaled frantically to be raised: he was chilled to the marrow and had lost the use of his legs. His shipmates took him ashore, put him in a trough used for boiling seaweed...
...weeks after these explosions, the Shunkotsu Maru collected very little radioactive material, and Japanese scientists conjectured that the explosions, which took place high in the air, had tossed most of their "hot" residue into the stratosphere in the form of extremely fine dust. The explosion on March 1, 1954 behaved differently because it was a "tower shot" that stirred up millions of tons of quick-settling coral dust. First radioactive material from the May 21 explosion was brought home by the tuna boat Stiruga Maru. Analyzed by Dr. Kenjiro Kimura of Tokyo University, it proved to contain a familiar array...
Slow-Falling Dust. Last week the Shunkotsu Maru reported radioactive dust from a third explosion that apparently took place on June 12 or 13. Analysis showed that it was also of the fission-fusion-fission type, but for some reason, perhaps small size or extremely high altitude, it did not stir up air or water waves strong enough to reach Japan. A small earth wave was detected on June 12, and a slightly stronger one on June...