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...Nippon Times carried the first post-marriage interview with Princess Yori, daughter of Emperor Hirohito. The princess, recently married to a commoner whose business is farming, reported that she gets up at 6:30 in the morning to help her husband care for their 300 canaries, 50 dogs, nine cows, 40 pigs, nine goats and 1,000 chickens. As for the eggs, they are bringing premium prices in Tokyo. Reason: merchants plainly mark them as products from the princess' chickens...
...resort to short-term loans from commercial banks (with interest as high as 11%) and government loans. Furthermore, shipping rates, which were boosted sky-high in 1950-51 by the Korean war, have dropped down again, and shippers expect a further slide. Warned Shimpo Asao, president of Nippon Yusen Kaisha, one of Japan's biggest shipping companies: "The future is very dark. Until world trade begins expanding there is not much hope for further recovery . . . more Japanese ships will make their way into world ports, but you can't operate in the red forever...
...official end. Japan promptly started a nine-day holiday to commemorate 1) the Peace Treaty, 2) Emperor Hirohito's 51st birthday, 3) May Day, 4) Japan's Memorial Day, 5) Japan's war-renouncing Constitution, 6) Children's Day. Headlined Tokyo's Nippon Times: LITTLE SIGNS OF JOY; PEOPLE IN QUANDARY...
Hirata was in Hawaii in 1941 when he received a cable from Nippon Electric saying that his services were urgently needed in Tokyo...
working for Nippon Electric and also...