Word: okuyama
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Reports Treasurer Okuyama...
...good things life had brought him, something to make life pleasanter for the citizens of Yamagata. He started on a campaign that soon won him the affectionate nickname of Nose Wiper, a campaign which, spreading to Tokyo, recently brought him an interview with a Tokyo reporter, Mr. S. Okuyama...
Crusader Takahashi is a bachelor. He lives in an empty barnlike structure which has not been troubled by scrubwomen for months. Reporter Okuyama found him propped up in bed reading a book. Other furniture of the bedroom was a desk, a reed organ or harmonium, a bucket, a pile of books...
...large hand mirror. Round his neck he hung a placard of a Japanese schoolboy with running nose. In brilliant ideographs down the side ran the legend: THIS PICTURE SHOULD NOT BE A SIGNBOARD FOR JAPAN. BLOW YOUR NOSE. OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE LAUGHED AT BY FOREIGNERS. Humbly Reporter Okuyama followed the nose crusader...
...Reporter Okuyama returned to Tokyo filled with enthusiasm, started a campaign fund for Crusader Takahashi. First week's contribution...