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While the Minsk was cruising off Japan last summer, Japanese photographer Mitsuo Shibata, flying in a rented plane, spotted Moscow's newest carrier and took this revealing set of aerial pictures near Miyako Island in the Ryukyus. With the Minsk he found the Petropavlovsk, a Soviet cruiser that carries a new type of missile apparently designed to shoot down cruise missiles...
...Died. Mitsuo Fuchida, 73, the Japanese Imperial Navy pilot who led the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that jolted the U.S. into World War II on Dec. 7, 1941; of diabetes; in Kashirhara, Japan. Six months after radioing his jubilant message of success ("Torn! Torn! Torn!") from Hawaii, Fuchida was severely wounded in the battle of Midway and spent the rest of the war as a staff officer. A chance encounter with a missionary in 1949 converted him to Christianity. He became a prolific writer of religious tracts and war histories, including Midway, the Battle That Doomed Japan, a close...
...added that despite Thai government assurances that the plant is secure, "to tell you the honest truth, I'm not so sure." In the first quarter of 1975, applications to invest in Thailand from U.S. and other firms fell more than 50% below a year ago. Says Mitsuo Unabara, a Japanese banker in Bangkok: "People are becoming reluctant to invest more because of the situations in Cambodia and Saigon, and they rather like to wait...
...often the city of Darwin has been subjected to the harsh and literal testing of that phrase. In 1897, a cyclone leveled the cliff-perched port town, killing 28 of its residents. In 1937, it was flattened by another tropical storm. Five years later, Japanese Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, blasted the city with 188 bombers, killing 243 people and wounding 300. Last week on Christmas Day came the latest -and worst-destroyer in Darwin's 105-year existence. Cyclone Tracy smashed and battered Darwin for five hours with banshee winds that reached...
...Shimbun, warned that excessive official zeal in enforcing Japan's tough obscenity laws could lead to "the barbarization of our culture and civilization in its crudest form." Tokyo Psychology Professor Kazuo Shimada sputtered that Nakata's arrest was unfair because sex "is a personal and private matter." Mitsuo Takeya, a leading Japanese nuclear physicist, worried that government repression "could end up by distorting the basic concept of sex." Complained Printmaker Kiyoshi Saito: "Where there is no sun, no healthy arts can flourish...