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...It’s a childhood event that everyone loves,” said Dunster resident Nnanenye N. Okochi ’06 of the game. “It’s a way of reliving your childhood memories...
...traditional Japanese performing art," remarks the Tokugawa Museum's curator, Sadao Okochi, in the catalogue, "has been purified and transformed by the dignity of its costumes." The motifs of a robe's design establish the mood, the period and the place of the action. Thus-to a Japanese theatergoer who knew the rules-a costume like the karaori robe in russet silk (see color] would at once suggest a Heian-period court, somewhere between A.D. 800 and 1200. The balls, woven with exquisite precision in raised white silk, refer to a Heian court game called kemari, an aristocratic...
Although proud of their country's democratic approach to higher learning, many Japanese scholars lament the loss of the universities' prewar intimacy, when there was close student-professor contact, more emphasis on moral guidance than career-oriented degree-granting. Schools today, complains Tokyo University President Kazuo Okochi, are "producing a lot of young graduates who do not have enough self-consciousness or sense of human values." Like the U.S., Japan has discovered that overcrowding and impersonality are part of the price a nation has to pay for mass higher education...
Douglas MacArthur paid no noticeable attention. He announced that the 700-year-old blade once sported by General Tomoyuki Yamashita was being sent out to West Point. Annapolis will get the sword once carried by Vice Admiral Denshichi Okochi...
...House of Peers last week Viscount Masatoshi Okochi demanded that the Premier's slayers should at least be tried. Temporizing, the Minister of the Navy, beefy Vice Admiral Mineo Osumi, called the case "complicated," promised a trial eventually. He then entertained the House of Peers by reading what he said was a confession made by one of the killers, "a young naval officer...
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