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...reporter for the daily Tokyo Shimbun, was curious. Armed only with the photo, he set out last week in Kobe to find her. After hours of scouring shelters for the homeless and asking passersby, he came upon a center for the elderly in the working-class district of Nagata. There he saw a slim woman pouring tea for quake victims. She looked older than in the photo, but when Tachio showed her the picture, she recognized herself by the striped pajama trousers and black-and-white jacket she had been wearing when the photo was taken. The woman, Emiko Deguchi...
...asleep in the two-story wooden house in Nagata that she shared with her mother Yoshie and father Shinichi, both 81, when the quake hit. Emiko and her father were unhurt, but a heavy wardrobe had fallen on Yoshie, pinning the frail old woman to the floor. As fire began roaring through the neighborhood, father and daughter struggled frantically to free her, without success. ``I'm going to stay here,'' her father said, but Emiko pleaded, ``You can't, father. You must live, for mother's sake!'' Emiko pulled him out of the house seconds before it was engulfed...
...Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese-American Internment--by Donna Nagata, associate professor of psychology, Smith College. Radcliffe Yard, Murray Research Center, Conference Room, noon...
...cook to every ten guests is a rule of thumb. The restaurant run by perhaps the greatest cook in Kyoto, Moto Nagata, seats ten people, and no tip will get you in; the Japanese rarely accept tips. Such cooking flourishes because few Japanese entertain at home. Phrases like "home cooking" do not translate into Japanese with their overtones intact. They suggest strain and bumbling, not warmth and sincerity...
Japanese Moviemaker Masaichi Nagata takes a ride down the old De Mille stream and soon finds himself up Spectacular Creek without a paddle. This footless, episodic epic on the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha tries to crowd everything in Buddhist literature into one elephantine moving picture. The parallels between Japan's first bid for a slice of the supermovie market and the Biblical pageantry of Samuel Bronston and Dino de Laurentiis are numbing: skyscraper temples to sinister gods, unseen choirs zum-zumming on the sound track, corps of nimble nautch dancers in every other reel. And when...