Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vaudeville gag told of a conceited counterfeiter who came to grief because he could not resist putting his own picture in place of George Washington's. Osaka's aging, ailing Counterfeiter Kanji Ikeda and his wife Yoshino were not vain, but they did arrange the serial numbers on their fake bills to read as messages to the son whose death in the war had turned their life to misery and despair. One of the Arabic numbers-797,423-read aloud in Japanese, meant: "Don't cry, honorable elder...
...Advocate General's office in Yokohama. She explained that she had read that her husband, convicted of chopping off a prisoner's head, had just been hanged. From a bundle she took out a silver cigarette case. Bowing, she said: "I have come all the way from Osaka to offer this gift to the Americans in gratitude for the fair trial my husband received...
...Jack Medica. Supreme Command Allied Powers officials thought that Furuhashi's mark would be internationally recognized, making him the first postwar Japanese athlete to attract overseas attention. Overnight, Furuhashi became the toast of Tokyo. An earnest office-worker wrote to the Osaka newspaper Asahi: "Each of us must become a Furuhashi. Herein we may find a way to solve the economic crisis...
...arena of an Osaka theater, two muddy Japanese girls lifted and tugged at each other (see cut). Their holds were amateurish. Their disparate weights (240 and 120 pounds respectively) would have made the most jaded U.S. groan-&-grunt promoter blush. But the panting young women were symbols of a national effort. With free elections, polite policemen and Coca-Cola machines, Japanese had sought to ape U.S. ways. Now the ultimate imitation had been achieved-female wrestling on a mat of liquid...
...most places the same old local bosses were returned to power. Although anyone tainted with "ultranationalism" was supposed to have been purged, borderline cases still ran for office, and many were elected. In Osaka a group of political purgees organized the Purgee Club to work for the election of their candidates...