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...accomplish this goal, D’Agata included essays from Ziusudra, William Blake, Matsuo Basho, Clarice Lispector, and Jonathan Swift, among others, and he explained that such writers respected the essay as an art form...
...peace. "She always said, 'No one wins in war,'" recalls Hatsuyo. "To her, these boys were victims." Many of the families visiting Chiran this Aug. 15 heed her message, and express pity and sorrow rather than jingoistic pride. "I came because I wanted to know the truth," says Kazunori Matsuo, 38, who rode from Nagasaki on his motorbike. Another visitor, Kazuo Nakajima, 47, says his late father had hidden his military history. "I learned just yesterday," he says, "that my father had trained as a kamikaze pilot." An aunt and uncle broke the news; the following day, Nakajima decided...
...army camps, says Toshio Shiba-yama, director of Tokyo Mutual, "young people are bound to learn something about the vital importance of team work." This spring, for the third year in a row, Japan Air Lines sent its new crop of employees to an artillery camp. Company President Shizuma Matsuo calls it "an exceedingly effective means of inculcating a right kind of corporate esprit de corps." Last week 40 new workers of Iwasaki Electric Co., soldiered with the First Airborne Group...
...Japanese, who have been avidly seeking to rewrite their air treaty with the U.S., greeted the pact as a welcome oseibo (year-end gift). Tapping New York, said JAL President Shizuma Matsuo, "means the greatest aviation right in the world." In return, Japan gave up its unused rights to fly to Seattle and to carry West Coast passengers and cargo to Central and South America, will allow U.S. airlines to serve Osaka, Japan's second largest city and the site for the 1970 World's Fair. Japan also agreed to drop its recent restriction on U.S. all-cargo...
...much; its fragile content defies explanation; its meaning must be found, not only in the haiku's simple imagery, but in the trains of reverie evoked in the reader. Even to the Japanese, this is not always an easy task. A haiku composed by the master, Matsuo Basho (1644-94), has puzzled his disciples for 273 years...