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Tokyo .38-cal. New Nambu revolver; collapsible aluminum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What London Is Missing Out On | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...braided cap, pausing to relight his corncob from time to time, he once more made a conspicuous target. A Nambu opened up. He didn't even duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Glorious Commander | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...their maroon tarbooshes and crisp khakis, the King's African Rifles stood tough and tall in the front rank of Britain's far-flung battle line. Whether the enemy was a spear-swinging Somali shifta or a Japanese marine behind a clattering Nambu machine gun, the well-disciplined askaris of the K.A.R. could be counted on to attack as ordered. Last week, from the headwaters of the Nile to the beaches of the Indian Ocean, the Rifles were barking again. But this time their muzzles were trained on British troops and their own recently independent governments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Africa: The Rise of the Rifles | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

...last-ditch stand during the liberation of Manila in World War II. But such memories were soon drowned by roars of approval for the Japanese performances. One of the stars of the meet was a slender (5 ft. 4 in., 116 lbs.) 19-year-old Japanese girl named Atsuko Nambu, who won the 100-meter event, placed second at 200 meters and in the broad jump, and anchored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Second Asiad | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Japanese women's relay team. (Atsuko's father, Chuhei Nambu, now an Osaka sportswriter, was the Olympic hop-step-jump champion in 1932). Other standouts in Manila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Second Asiad | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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