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...humanity" seems a strange slogan for a whisky distiller. But then, Keizo Saji, 54, chairman and president of Japan's Suntory Ltd., and coiner of the slogan, is a rather strange bird himself. Every year, in addition to contributing one-third of the profits of his privately owned, Osaka-based company (annual sales: $966 million) to an employee benefits program, he contributes an other third to charitable and cultural causes, nota bly the preservation of the 490 species of birds found in Japan...
...killer managed to penetrate the tight security that always surrounds Park. Whenever he ventures into public view, Park is accompanied by brigades of bodyguards. Attendance at the Liberation Day ceremony was by invitation only. Yet Moon Se Kwang, 23, a Korean citizen who was a longtime resident of Osaka, Japan, somehow managed to pass himself off as a Japanese diplomat and to get in carrying a snub-nosed revolver. Moon had entered Korea nine days before on a Japanese passport issued in another man's name and had $1,200 in his pocket when captured. Japanese police said that...
...sake brewer, Sasakawa made a fortune before he was 30 by speculating in Osaka's grain and stock markets. He also was-and is-a dedicated right-wing superpatriot who decries the social changes that are moving Japan away from traditional manners and mores. In traditional fashion, he likes to boast of his conquest of more than 500 women, ranging from "a distant relative of Emperor Taisho to almost all the top geisha." His unbridled admiration for Benito Mussolini -"the perfect fascist and dictator" -lingers to this day. Indeed, Sasakawa sometimes boasts that he is the "world...
...restaurant, patronized by the area's Japanese population, is divided into three parts roughly according to the kind of food served in each. The most exotic, and least crowded, section is the raw fish, or sushi, bar. Osaka's sushi is as good as any you are likely to find in the Northeast...
...most popular section, Osaka offers teppan yaki, a preparation of bite-size pieces of tender beef broiled in front of you on an open stove. The third section, with standard restaurants and chairs, serves the traditional Western favorites--sukiyaki, teriyaki and tempura. All full meals are accompanied by a delicious Japanese soup called miso, sunemono, a crab meat salad, and all the green tea you can drink. Of the liquors, the sake and plum wine are particularly worth trying...