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...Makiokas are an Osaka-based clan of proper Japanese who, unlike proper Bostonians, have dipped into capital. The four sisters who dominate Author Tanizaki's story are snobbish, overbred, illness and accident-prone, genteelly displaced persons in a Japan that is flexing its muscles for World War II. By strictly observed seniority rights, Yukiko−who at 30 is the oldest unmarried sister−must find a husband first. But Yukiko is a clinging vine who almost prefers clinging to her family. She is adept at flower-arranging, but she gets completely flustered if she has to answer...
...woody top of Mount Koya, south of Osaka in Japan, are scores of ancient temples and pilgrim hostels that make up the spiritual center of the influential Buddhist sect called Shingon-shu. Last week the shaven-pated monks of Shingon-shu climbed out of their black robes into a strange new garb called a baseball uniform, began pitching a stitched leather ball around and swinging at it with a wooden club called...
...businessman was more global-minded than Sosthenes Behn, who created the world web of $760 million International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Behn stretched his communications empire from Antwerp to Osaka, steered it through 34 years of war, revolution, boom and bust, and boom again. Always somehow able to snatch cash from disaster, he had a secret: a skill at diplomacy that few foreign ministers could match, a grip on his company that only a last tycoon could keep...
...Asian nations in imitating the West, has lately acquired both a lost generation and a flaming youth. Currently, the symbol of both is a girl with waist-length black hair, cat's eyes and a fox smile who could be seen last week on the stage of Osaka's Kitano Theater. As she closed her eyes, and with hips swaying began to sing (in alternating English and Japanese verses) an excruciatingly off-key version of Banana Boat Song, her quivering fans rose from their seats and screamed with delight. At 18 Michiko Hamamura is touted, more or less...
Michiko shot to her present eminence by a maneuver familiar to Hollywood: posing in the seminude. The daughter of an Osaka metal-shop owner, she arrived in Tokyo when she was 15 seeking a singing career, but was bluntly told by the first recording company she went to that she could not sing. Nevertheless, she got singing engagements in U.S. Army camps, picked up a smattering of English, and went on the nightclub circuit. There Photographer Tateyuki Nakamura spotted her, persuaded her to pose in black silk stockings and little else. The photograph, when it appeared in a magazine...