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...Tokyo's Asahi, which likes to call itself the New York Times of Japan, 30-year-old Hiroshi Nagaoka was only a police reporter in the bureau at Kobe. But like all reporters everywhere, Nagaoka dreamed of the great beat that would make his name & fame...
Young in Heart. In Tokyo, government ordinance was blamed by 8 2-year-old Kura Nagaoka for her retirement after 70 years as a practicing geisha...
Last week, police turned up a middle-aged "sun goddess," 45-year-old Yoshika Nagaoka. During the war she had counseled many Japanese generals; now, as "Jiko-san" (Divine Light), she got financial support from Japanese aristocrats and militarists, averaged $16,000 a month in contributions. Over her temple in Kanazawa, Jiko-san flew the red "meatball" flag of Imperial Japan; to her followers she restated the basic State Shinto principles of hakko ichi-u-the whole world under Japan's Emperor. Jiko-san had included General Douglas MacArthur and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin in her cabinet of lesser deities...
Touching a new high for Japanese arrogance, Mr. Yokoyama next announced that Japan nominates for judgeship in the League of Nations' "World Court" at The Hague onetime Japanese Ambassador to France Haruichi Nagaoka...
...recent years a view of General Nagaoka's mustache, like a view of Fujiyama, was an honor accorded all distinguished visitors. The Lindberghs were photographed beside it. In full bloom it stretched over 20 inches from tip to tip, one-third as much as the General spanned from top to toe. Last week Gaishi Nagaoka, 75, died of bladder trouble in Keio University Hospital in Tokyo. According to the Japanese law his body was washed and prepared for cremation. But not his white plume, not his badge of honor. To his death bed came his son and reverently clipped...