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...current prayer space can comfortably serve about 30 to 40 worshippers, according to Mitsuru Watanabe '98, president of the Islamic Society. "During Ramadan, the month of fasting, a lot of students come, and it gets tight," Watanabe says...
...tiny speck in the Pacific was the ultimate stepping-stone to the empire's home islands. Throughout the 83-day struggle for Okinawa, Buckner's favorite toast, over bourbon and water, was "May you walk in the ashes of Tokyo." Aware of this objective, his enemy, Lieut. General Mitsuru Ushijima, prepared a war of attrition to keep Okinawa from becoming a staging ground for the U.S. invasion of Japan. "Do your utmost," Ushijima's men were told. "The victory of the century lies in this battle." In early July, when the battles for Okinawa were finally over, more than...
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi moved to L.A. from Kaseda, Japan, in 1964 to make money. After 19 years building up his Mitsuru Restaurant in Little Tokyo, he speaks only Japanese. Unlike Warren Furutani, though, Yamaguchi, 51, is untroubled by cultural contradictions. Says he: "I am not worried about the 'Americanization' of my two children. They were born here, and their styles are different." The odds...
...Okinawa the unworthy soldier who had cooked for Lieut. General Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese commander, told the story: on the night of June 21 he was ordered to prepare a No. 1 dinner for an important occasion. This he served at 10 o'clock to Ushijima and his chief of staff, Lieut. General Isamu Cho. Five hours later the cook was told that the ceremony was about to occur. Forty minutes after that Ushijima and Cho appeared, wearing dress uniform with medals, their boots highly polished...
...aged, quiet fanatic Mitsuru Toyama, the gang boss who appears to be finally responsible for most of Japan's political assassinations for decades...