Word: nogi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...INFLUENCES IN HIS LIFE: I have been profoundly impressed by many people, in particular General Nogi. He was chancellor of the Peers' School [an academy for the children of Japan's aristocracy] when I first attended. I particularly recall this episode when I was a small boy: I met him at a certain place, and he asked me, "How do you come to school when it rains?" And I was just a small boy, so I answered offhand, "I come by horse-drawn carriage." And Nogi said, "When it rains you must come here on foot wearing...