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...DIED. MICHIKO NAMIKI, 79, Japanese singer whose Apple Song was a major hit following WWII; in Tokyo. As historian John Dower wrote: "That spirits were lifted by a peppy jingle about something edible was hardly surprising at a time when food was an overriding concern...
DIED. EMPRESS DOWAGER NAGAKO, 97, widow of Japanese Emperor Hirohito and mother of reigning Emperor Akihito; at Tokyo's royal palace. She married Hirohito in 1924 and became Empress in 1926. Born a princess, Nagako reportedly had cool relations with daughter-in-law Michiko, the current Empress and the first commoner to marry a Japanese Crown Prince...
Crown Prince Naruhito (with his wife Masako) is heir to a clan that claimed divinity until Japan's defeat in World War II. Imperial brides till then had come from the nobility. But the Prince's mother, the Empress Michiko, is a commoner, as is Masako...
...well-dressed Japanese women, pens poised over notebooks, nod politely, not entirely sure what to make of this latest piece of American ingenuity. "It's so convenient," Raftery explains. "And now they have cole slaw too." But there are so many more mysteries to ponder at the A&P. Michiko Takai wants to know: "Which are most popular for children-alfalfa sprouts or onion sprouts?" "Alfalfa," Raftery replies after thinking it over...
...images of their clothing tattooed on their flesh: the pattern of a kimono on a woman's back, the unburned swath left by a sash around the waist of an otherwise charred man. "Big black flies appeared and tried to lay eggs on human flesh," says survivor Michiko Watanabe, now 65. "The injured were so weak that they couldn't brush away the flies that nestled in their hands and necks. Some were black from a blanket of flies that covered them...