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...Said Dr. Masao Tsuzuki, director of Tokyo's Red Cross Central Hospital: "Speaking as a scientist, I can make no evaluation of the strontium 90 danger. Too much work is still to be done. We do not know how much gets down to earth or how long that takes. We do not know how much then enters the human body, or at what rate, or what the mechanism of transfer from food to animals and humans is. I do not believe that strontium 90 will be permanently harmful at its present level, but if experimental explosions continue...
...Bangkok, Thailand, discovered TIME when the Allied forces arrived in his city in 1945. "While visiting the U.S. in 1946," he wrote, "I subscribed to TIME and have been reading it ever since, to keep up with international events and to get to know the Americans." In Tokyo, Masao Saneyoshi, head of five oil and construction companies,described his TIME-reading habit another way: "To be the first to know the latest, to know world affairs at a glance...
Late in 1943, Masao Mimatsu, postmaster and amateur volcanologist of Sobetsu, a small town in southwestern Hokkaido, was working on routine papers. Once in a while he looked out the window at his pet volcano, intermittently active Mount Usu, two miles away. On Dec. 31 he heard a mighty rumbling and the ground began to tremble. Shouting "Ji-shin!" (earthquake), he rushed outdoors and looked again at Mount Usu. The tall black volcano showed no signs of life...
...Colonel Masao Kusunose, 58, was about to be tried by the Allies. On New Britain, in 1942, he had authorized the bayoneting of 140 Australian prisoners. But the Colonel, according to his peculiar code, was a man of honor; for him there was only one possible course: suicide. He could not commit hara-kiri because his samurai saber had been confiscated by the enemy. Death by drowning or jumping in front of a train would be improper. He decided to end his life by starvation and exposure (the weather was sub-zero...
...Accepted the "surrender" of part of the Japanese fleet from his old Shanghai golfing partner, Rear Admiral Masao Kanazawa, who proposed that both sides should now have a drink together, as after a golf match...