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...particularly suspicious when Movie Actor Mitsuyasu Maeno appeared at Tokyo's Chofu Airport last week in a World War II kamikaze pilot's uniform, complete with white scarf and with risingsun flags emblazoned on his right sleeve and on his warrior's headband. As he rented a single-engine Piper Cherokee from a local flying club, he explained that he was merely doing a publicity turn for a new film on the 1944-45 suicide pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Kamikaze Over Tokyo | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...potatoes and picking bananas off the trees. "My commanding officer told me to fight it out," he explained. Last month he was spotted by a Morotai native, who alerted Indonesian authorities. Four airmen lured the naked Nakamura out of hiding by singing the Japanese national anthem and waving the risingsun flag. Then they pounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Last Last Soldier? | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...About those Pressies: My boss, Ben W. Strange II, changed the name of Risingsun, Ohio's weekly paper, from the Unique to the Star Route News. However, the previous publisher, the first Ben Strange, was for years Strange, of the Unique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 11, 1963 | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...enjoy my visit here." As the ship nosed in, his eye was especially taken by a quartet of hula dancers; he asked, and was assured that he would see more hula-hula before he left. Thousands of Hawaii's Japanese wept, shouted "banzai." waved imitation cherry blossoms and risingsun flags as the Prince went ashore for a round of ceremonial visits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Welcome for a Prince | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Sunshine. Cabled TIME Correspondent Simon Bourgin: "The elections were the most corrupt and boldly manipulated in the postwar Balkans. The Government had denied the opposition radio time, newsprint for its papers, transportation for its candidates. The Democratic Front's risingsun symbol was plastered every where, including polling places. In one brewery, workers were treated to a one-act play entitled Vote the Sun, then marched in to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Overzealous Sunshine | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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