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They were not, however, kept entirely secret. Long-range atom-bomb watching has become a favorite sport in Japan. When nuclear tests are impending, whether by the U.S. or the U.S.S.R., all sorts of instruments are checked and tuned for superfine sensitivity. This year a survey ship, the Shunkotsu Maru, carrying scientists and scientific apparatus, has been cruising near the danger area in the Pacific, and tuna boats have been gathering radioactive dust. Japanese scientists relish the fact that they are the only ones in the world who make observations and report them openly...
...Manila Bay last week, a motor launch carrying Philippine Vice President Carlos P. Garcia and Japanese Representative Toshio Urabe chugged out to the sunken hulk of the Japanese freighter Seiwa Maru, one of the rusty eyesores that litter Manila's harbor and menace navigation. Urabe solemnly scattered flowers on the glistening waters in memory of the Japanese soldiers and sailors who went down with their ships, under some of the most destructive bombing by the U.S. Navy in World War II. Then a representative of seven Japanese salvage companies poured out an urnful of sake as an offering...
...March 1 thermonuclear explosion (TIME, March 22) continued to reverberate around the world. By last week the big blast had touched off an investigation in Washington, spread panic through Japan and strained U.S.-Japanese relations. The latest bad news came from a Japanese fishing boat, the Fukuryu Maru (Fortunate Dragon), which churned into its home port of Yaizu last week with more than 16,500 lbs. of radioactive tuna and shark and 23 terrified crewmen. They had reason to be frightened: all had been burned by radioactive ash, and the most severely injured men were showing a telltale decline...
...board the Hakusan Maru, prisoners changed their PW-stamped olive drab and khaki for white shirts and trousers, squatted down eagerly for a Japanese meal of baked sea bream, rice and sake. Said Yokoyama: "The memory of the destruction and murder committed in the Philippines will remain with me as a nightmare that I will carry to my grave...
...Mara Maru (Warner) is the name of a luxury yacht from which Errol Flynn, a deepsea diver, is trying to retrieve a million dollars in gems from the China Sea. Despite assault & battery, murder, a shipwreck, a typhoon and chases through catacombs and jungles, he succeeds in salvaging the treasure and Ruth Roman, too. Neither Errol's deeds of derring-do nor some vigorous direction can salvage the farfetched scenario...