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Communists Embarrassed. Japan's emotional ban-the-bombers suffered less schizophrenia about who was to blame, though the illusion of moral influence still persisted in spots: the conservative Nihon Keizai Shimbun wistfully editorialized that "our fondest hope is for the U.S. to reconsider its decision on resumption, and by so doing compel Russia to follow suit." But even Zengakuren, the extreme leftist student organization whose screaming mobs forced President Eisenhower to cancel his trip to Japan a year ago, turned about and labeled the Russian decision "Stalinist power diplomacy," and began gathering a nationwide petition of protest signatures...
...foreigners who annually visit Hiroshima, and the more wealthy of the 2,000,000 Japanese visitors. In addition to tourists, Hiroshima lives by the brewing of beer and the building of ships-and, ironically, by the manufacture of howitzers by Japan's biggest gunmaker, Nihon Seiko, whose sales last year grossed $61 million and gave employment to more than 1,500 Hiroshima citizens...
Haniwa is an enigmatic art. The picturesque account given in the Nihon Shoki (chronicles of Japan compiled in the 8th century) credits Emperor Suinin (29 B.C.-A.D. 70) with substituting clay figures for the human retainers who customarily had been buried alive with their masters. Historians scuttled this colorful explanation by discovering that Haniwa figures were not made until centuries after inin's rule. Best bet is that the Haniwa figures, along with houses and boats, were meant to console the dead. Says Expert Fumio Miki: "We can only surmise from the data on hand that they were grave...
About 55 enthusiastic free enterprisers promptly applied for the ten licenses. They included a dozen newspapers, two chambers of commerce, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, a brewery, two Christian groups, and an organization called the Buddhist Broadcasting Co. Co-existing with the new private stations is government-owned, non-commercial Nihon Hoso Kyokai (Japanese Broadcasting System), noted before the war for propaganda, folk songs (Naniwabushi) and horrendous singing programs for children. NHK is now dedicated to popular music, variety shows, quiz programs and drama...
...next morning, three battleships, still newer and still bigger than the Indianas, appeared in the more dangerous waters off Muroran, at the mouth of Hokkaido's Volcano Bay. They were the Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin, and they took the Nihon Steel Works and the Wanishi Iron Works as their target, while screening craft darted closer inshore to shoot at smaller bull's-eyes...