Word: murai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...care who he is as long as he is alone," she says, but she is rejected. The third incident has the Rev. Mr. Hartman (Donald Saddler) jaggedly convulsed before the vision of a woman dimly seen through a window. The fourth is a tautly controlled dance between mother (Ilona Murai) and son expressing in the pushing of a palm and the brush of a shoulder her mixed longing and desire to send him into the world...
Back in 1952, Shigeru Murai, a natty, smooth-talking member of a well-to-do Tokyo merchant family, joined the staff of the Nippon Textile Research Institute, a respected outfit set up by the textile industry to study market research and improve designs. Two years later, Shigeru Murai resigned and opened a new textile sales company just across the street from the institute in the heart of Tokyo's business district. Flashing the institute's name and his career there to get credit, the smiling and ever-courteous Murai bought large quantities of textile and paper supplies...
...year ago, unpaid creditors began to complain to police that they had been swindled. Checking, police found that Murai had run up $400,000 in unpaid bills, and had no visible assets. They also found that Murai and 36 of his 40 employees were hard-shell Communists, and that, thanks to the astute Murai's maneuvering, the seemingly respectable Nippon Institute was now Communist-controlled. Last week, confronted with the facts, Murai confessed that the party, hard pressed for funds after General MacArthur drove it underground in 1950, had decided to set up a string of phony companies...