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...sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, Mari Oishi, was shot and injured on campus early on the morning of Jan. 15 after walking past what local police have called a failed armed robbery. A stray bullet hit Oishi in her left thigh as an unknown gunman struggled with two men over the keys to a Mercedes-Benz SL-Class Roadster. She was immediately transported to the Penn hospital and was released later that day, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the university’s student paper. Michael Barrett, 31, and Robert Keith, 24, were also shot in the incident. Both...

Author: By Marie C. Kodama, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: UPenn Student Injured in Shooting | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...victim could have described being forced to start a new life in an alien country and then, finally, being allowed to return to Japan. These Japanese were brutally snatched from their homeland and upon returning there had to leave behind children raised as North Koreans, not Japanese. Asami Oishi Osaka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...might be called "the Fat Jap Syndrome," in honor of Spiro Agnew's jocular question aboard a campaign plane in 1968, when he observed Baltimore Sun Reporter Gene Oishi asleep in his seat and inquired, "What's the matter with the fat Jap?" What was intended as bluff bonhomie immediately appeared to be racial callousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fat Jap Trap | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

Agnew personally is a talkative, gregarious and kindly man, but he keeps slipping unwittingly into crudity. As when he branded the Baltimore Sun's Gene Oishi "the fat Jap" during the campaign. Or when he told a Chicago press conference: "When I am moving in a crowd, I don't look and say, 'There's a Negro, there's a Greek, there's a Polack.' " Or when his aide, C. D. Ward, barreled through a glass door at San Clemente and ended up with permanent facial scars; for fun, Agnew started calling him "Wolfgang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: SPIRO AGNEW: THE KING'S TASTER | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...Senior Class at Rutgers has elected Kuma Oishi, one of the Japanese students, orator for Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/9/1888 | See Source »

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