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...hill village of Shirakawa, Hikosaku Matsumoto, 62, is called "Hyakkan Jii San"-100-kan oldster-because of his boast that he can lift 100 kan (825 Ibs.). His undisciplined white beard and scholarly bald dome make him look more like an elderly monk than an athlete. His nickname delights him so much that, after the manner of Tony Galento's boxing trunks, he has "Hyakkan" written in Chinese characters down the front of his athletic blouse...
Last summer Matsumoto again proved he was worthy of his nickname by climbing 12,395-ft. Mt. Fuji carrying a heavy stone on his back. Next he ran 56 miles from Shirakawa to Fukushima. Last week he topped all previous feats by trotting nonstop from his hometown to Tokyo's Ueno Station. The distance": 117 miles, five times the historic run from Marathon to Athens. The time: 29 hours...
...route, Matsumoto wore out four pairs of special straw sandals, nourished himself by munching rice balls which he had arranged to have tied to convenient roadside trees the day before. A younger, less durable friend followed on a bicycle, but Matsumoto breezed into Tokyo with enough wind left to tell startled bystanders about his run. He also wheezed a challenge: at a Shirakawa shrine festival he would lift a 70-kan (579-lb.) stone, would give a prize of ten yen (65?) to anyone who could lift more. Sneered Matsumoto: "Youngsters these days are too soft...
...freely. Last week Marines in Sasebo forced Teacher Yoshiki Matsumoto to stand before 1,000 pupils of Waifu Primary School to retract his unfounded charge that a G.I. in a jeep deliberately ran over and killed ten Jap children...
Railways have replaced neither worn-out rails nor worn-out rolling stock. Accidents increase. Matsumoto-san, the Japanese man-in-the-street, shaves in the morning with a dull razor (blades are scarce), rides to work on an overcrowded charcoal-burning bus (motor fuel is rationed), climbs long flights of stairs to his office (electricity for elevators is no longer available), eats his noonday meal,(after showing his rice ration card) and goes home to bed without even the comfort of his much-loved steaming hot-water bath (charcoal is scarce); and wonders about glory...