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Tokyo serenade. The "We Love Music, We Love the Earth" concert includes Sadao Watanabe, Lee Ritenour, Patti Austin, James Taylor, Dave Grusin and Oscar Castro-Neves. April...
Despite such practical questions, Winooski's dome is stirring widespread interest. Tigan has been besieged with requests for radio and television interviews. He has also had an indirect boost from Buckminster Fuller, father of the geodesic dome. Says Shoji Sadao, Fuller's partner in the New York architectural firm of Fuller & Sadao: "Maybe we're getting out of the realm where this is just a pipe dream or visionary, and slowly getting into the realm of the practical." Maybe...
...traditional Japanese performing art," remarks the Tokugawa Museum's curator, Sadao Okochi, in the catalogue, "has been purified and transformed by the dignity of its costumes." The motifs of a robe's design establish the mood, the period and the place of the action. Thus-to a Japanese theatergoer who knew the rules-a costume like the karaori robe in russet silk (see color] would at once suggest a Heian-period court, somewhere between A.D. 800 and 1200. The balls, woven with exquisite precision in raised white silk, refer to a Heian court game called kemari, an aristocratic...
...biggest buyer of Japan's goods in general (almost $1 billion worth last year), but Britain is likely to be the chief beneficiary of Japanese in vestment. Japanese find English the easiest European language to learn, and they savor the English way of life. Says Mitsui's Sadao Oba, one of the more than 4,000 Japanese businessmen living in greater London: "I like the quiet very much. I like the gentler pace of life." English employees in Japanese firms often return the compliment (see box previous page...
There are even more embarrassing footnotes. After Pfc. Sadao Munemori was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the citation of her son's heroism reached Mrs. Munemori behind the barbed wire of a relocation center at Manzanar, Calif. The American Legion canceled the charters of all Japanese American posts. In California in 1942, State Attorney General Earl Warren, campaigning for Governor, urged voters to keep Japanese out of California "so long as the flag of Nippon is flying over the Philippines...