Word: norio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month, a young Japanese adventurer named Norio Suzuki went to Lubang to hunt down Onoda. When the two men finally met in a remote jungle clearing, the lieutenant laid down his condition: "Only in case my commanding officer rescinds my order in person will I surrender." Last weekend Suzuki returned to Lubang accompanied by former army Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, 63, a Kyushu bookseller who had been Onoda's last military superior. Dressed in a shapeless cap and a tattered uniform and clutching his old regulation infantry rifle, Onoda stood at attention as Taniguchi read out an Imperial Army...
...Much of what is called golf pollution is something altogether imagined or emotional," says Norio Nomura, an official at the Ministry of Construction in Tokyo. "When the most precious commodity in Japan-land-gets grabbed up fast, the people react sharply and emotionally." Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, a devoted golfer, adds: "Golf courses retain greenery. Japan needs more greenery and more golf courses...
...Japan's export drive. For Japanese, New York is a prize foreign assignment because it is the corporate capital of the U.S. Besides, the skyscrapers, neon lights, choking traffic and pollution make it seem almost like home. "Tokyo cannot find a city nearer to it than York," says Norio Ochi, director of the Japan Trade Center in Manhattan. The average tour of duty is three years, and all but top executives must leave their wives and families in Japan for at least the first six months...