Word: nishihara
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...Tails. X-ray studies reveal natural collagen as three strands of molecules twisted together like rope. The strands are short, and many have to be joined end to end to make up the body's long collagen fibers. Dr. Tomio Nishihara, a physical chemist who heads research for the Japan Leather Co., and Dr. Francis O. Schmitt of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thought there must be something on the ends of the basic molecules that enabled them to couple. Dr. Albert L. Rubin and an M.I.T. team set about testing the theory. They found that each collagen strand...
...reconstituted collagen, the Japan Leather Co. uses odds and ends of calf skin left over when the hides have been cut for making shoes. After weeks of soaking and washing hide in various chemicals, including enzymes, to remove the linkage tails, Dr. Nishihara pours collagen into thin sheets resembling cellophane. The resulting membrane makes fine, easily digestible sausage casing. It also gave the Rogosin Labs' Dr. Rubin and Dr. Kurt Stenzel an idea for its first medical application-use in the artificial kidney, which has a filter membrane of sausage-casing cellophane. In laboratory glassware the collagen membrane...
Next morning General Nishihara deferred "for the time being" the landing of troops at Haiphong, but the drive from the China border was carried to the enemy with energy. Tokyo newspapers hailed the "peaceful penetration." French authorities put aside the honey and brought on the acid: "Anyone coming across the border in the middle of the night in combat formation and using arms is hardly friendly...
...show they meant business they ordered the evacuation of Japanese nationals from Indo-China, began moving them to the port city of Haiphong. Major General Issaku Nishihara, head of the mission, gravely warned: "When I leave French territory you may say the crisis has been reached." But the same day Japan backed down again, then announced that the negotiations were again going along smoothly. The Foreign Office in Tokyo glibly denied that there had ever been any ultimatum anyway...
...three Japanese air stations in Tonkin, with 6,000 troops to garrison them, and granted immediate landing of a limited number of soldiers at Haiphong. But the agreement did not come soon enough to satisfy the fire-eating leaders of Japan's South China Army. Before Major General Nishihara could communicate with them, they had crossed the border at Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with the French defenders. Next morning Tokyo announced the surrender of the French, and the Japanese marched triumphantly on, while their Foreign Office virtuously announced that the clash "was entirely...