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...Japanese daimyo, or feudal lord, named Yorishige Matsudaira rode 350 miles southwest from Tokyo (then Edo) to take over the provincial capital city of Takamatsu on the sunny island of Shikoku. To commemorate his arrival, he called in the finest landscape architects in the land and had them build a magnificent garden, known as Ritsurin Koen, or Forest of Chestnut Trees, that even today draws visitors from all over Japan. When they come, they see in flourishing Takamatsu, now a city of 240,000, many another sight to please the eye. For Masanori Kaneko, 60, the local governor, has taken...
...wide as the "design chiji [governor]." For the Takamatsu library, he brought in Yoshinobu Ashihara, architect for Japan's pavilion at Expo 67. Professor Junzo Yoshimura, original architect of Emperor Hirohito's new palace in Tokyo, managed the restoration of the exquisite Moon-Scooping Pavilion, built by Matsudaira...
...that point, the debate had been for the most part one between the two old adversaries. But now, meticulous, bespectacled Koto Matsudaira of Japan spoke up for the first time to express his government's "misgivings" over the U.S. intervention, and said that he would try to seek some sort of compromise. To add to the U.S.'s discomfiture, bald Omar Loutfi of the United Arab Republic produced a letter from the president of the Lebanese Parliament denouncing U.S. intervention as an infringement of Lebanese sovereignty. Finally, as the second day ended, still another sour note was sounded...
...Washington, Johnny met Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira who advised him to get a change from the Pacific Coast atmosphere with its anti-Nisei discrimination and see something of the "older America." The ambassador remarked that his predecessor had received an honorary degree from Brown University. Johnny Aiso went to Brown, graduated cum laude in 1931, delivered the class valedictory. Then he went back to California, became a lawyer in Los Angeles...
Died. Tsuneo Matsudaira, 72, suave, skillful onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. (1925-28) and Britain (1928-36), confidant (as Imperial Household Minister) to Emperor Hirohito and father-in-law of the Emperor's brother, Prince Chichibu; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. As a moderate, he was hated by the military, unofficially cleared of war responsibility by the Allies, elected first president in 1947 of Japan's.new upper house, the House of Councilors...