Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good; between nightly bouts, the victims suffer continuously from shortness of breath. Japanese doctors do not recognize this as a unique form of asthma, but this does not mean the Japanese are immune: five native Japanese have come down with it, and the only victim who died was a Nisei from Hawaii. Army medics once thought that evacuation from the Kanto smog zone effected a geographic cure, but now they find many victims with continuing symptoms long after return...
Hawaii. With elderly Senator Oren E. Long retiring, slum-born Democratic Congressman Daniel Ken Inouye, a Nisei, is competing for the seat against Benjamin Franklin Dillingham II, scion of Hawaii's most prominent family. Starting out way behind, Republican Dillingham narrowed the gap while Inouye was kept glued in Washington. But there still appears to be a bit of gap left...
Pineapple Juice. Democrat Inouye has another sort of tradition. Born in a Honolulu slum, he enlisted in the famed Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team in 1943, won a battlefield commission and later a Distinguished Service Cross in Italy in a bloody action that cost him his right arm. A lawyer and a onetime (1954-58) majority leader of the territorial house of representatives, Inouye became Hawaii's first and only U.S. Representative in 1959 (the state will have two after this year). In Washington, Inouye has backed the Kennedy Administration all the way, taken enthusiastic care of Hawaii...
...hero (he captures the gefilte-fisherman). The nut occasionally has a date: Lieutenant Prentiss, a nurse who in civilian life was "just a tall girl, but now I'm a short commodity." When he wants to get in trouble, he unfortunately has a buddy: an industrious Nisei (Yoshio Yoda) who labors day and night to "indoctrinate" every native girl on the island. And when he wants to get out of trouble, he unfortunately has a shocking-pink colonel (Charles McGraw) who turns purple every time the hero appears...
...this daring gamble-which so far has cost Seibu $8,000,000-Tsutsumi is relying on a retailing formula that blends East and West. Housed in a block-long, four-story building with just touches of Japanese decor-a cluster of lanterns, an occasional screen and a few Nisei girls in geisha costume-Seibu of Los Angeles is essentially an American store with all the usual U.S. retailing gimmicks, including a two-deck parking garage and a roof-garden restaurant with bar. Its merchandise is predominantly Western-styled, and only 60% of it is made in Japan. To provide this...