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...Japanese press references to McCormick's remarks were killed by MacArthur censors. They passed a frontpage, column story in the Nippon Times, quoting Milwaukee's Lansing Hoyt, self-appointed MacArthur campaign boss: "I am able to say with the certainty of personal knowledge that General MacArthur will accept the Republican nomination...
...Since the war," complained a 22-year-old Tokyo girl, "we Japanese have been feeling no passion in our lives." Last week, the citizens of Tokyo felt a sort of patriotic passion for Konoshin Furuhashi, 19, a muscular, close-cropped literature student at Nippon University. In the all-Japan swimming championships at Meiji Shrine pool, Furuhashi thrashed out the 400-meter free style in 4:38.4, three-tenths of a second better than the world record set in 1934 by the U.S.'s Jack Medica. Supreme Command Allied Powers officials thought that Furuhashi's mark would be internationally...
...Nippon Keizai Shimbun, a conservative Japanese business journal, reported...
Delegate Kiyoko Miki, 27, the Japanese Diet's glamor girl, is somewhat bucktoothed, but Japanese connoisseurs say she has "something of the siren in her." Explaining her election in a hotly contested Osaka district, the Nippon Times said: "Whatever she lacked in political acumen she made up amply in sex appeal." Last week, Kiyoko was having Dietary troubles: she had fallen in love with a dashing fellow delegate, Kiyoshi Kawani-shi, 28 (heir to the Kawanishi Aircraft fortune). Kawanishi already has a wife, who refuses to divorce him. In the Diet, members proposed Kiyoko's removal on grounds...
...frightening cry that once signaled the suicidal charges of Japan's doomed Pacific Island armies echoed through Tokyo this week. More than 100,000 cheering Japanese swarmed over the outer grounds of Emperor Hirohito's palace to shout "Banzai!" to his promulgation of Nippon's new, democratically worded constitution (effective May 7). The Emperor & Empress showed themselves for only five minutes, but that was long enough to get oldsters weeping. A college student expressed the new Japan, enthusiastically "democratic," yet still tied to the Emperor by fantastically exaggerated loyalty: "I consider it the greatest...