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...years the copper-hued tsurigane (hanging bell) of Tokyo's Nishi-arai Dai-shi Temple rang out over the city, its tone as rich as a mighty organ. When the temple survived the Tokyo earthquake of 1923, a superstition arose that the tsurigane was imperishable. Then, on an autumn day in 1943, a drab-colored Japanese army truck carted the half-ton tsurigane away to be melted down, with thousands of other Buddhist temple bells, into war scrap. The bell disappeared from sight, but its memory lingered...
Bones-and the Atomic Age. To keep alive a sense of Buddhist unity, despite these local religious differences, 200 representatives of Asia's 150 million Buddhists (plus a few Buddhists from Europe and the U.S.) met last week in Tokyo's Nishi Honganji Temple for the second conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists. Sitting under a forest of multicolored* Buddhist banners, they opened with a special anthem...
...Pound of Cure. In Nagoya, Japan, Masaja Ryuno, president of the Nishi-Tsukiji Crime Prevention Society, was being questioned by local police on suspicion of embezzling 31,900 yen of the society's funds...
...steaming afternoon last week in Hanoi, Governor General Admiral Jean Decoux of Indo-China and Japan's supreme penetrator General Issaku Nishi-hara sat down and signed an agreement. It permitted Japan to establish three air bases in Tonkin, the northern province of Indo-China, and to garrison the bases with about 6,000 troops. The French out-Japanesed the Japanese in their comments. Admiral Decoux called the agreement "one of the greatest marks of confidence one country can give another." General Maurice Martin, Commander of the Indo-China Army, called it "the first manifestation of a durable friendship...
...climb trees and ride on the palace lawn in his toy automobile and bicycle. Twenty young sons of peers come to play with him in shifts on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Last week four more noble playmates with special talents were chosen to match Akihito's varying moods: Yasuo Nishi, 7, accomplished pilot of baby automobiles; Yoshitska Torio, 7, very good at drawing; Takatoshi Kinoshita, 6, a singer and athlete; and Tsuyo Mishima, 7, brilliant toy soldier tactician...