Word: saito
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose origins in northern Japan are obscure, first burst upon the public consciousness as a prewar activist in right-wing causes. He has been jailed three times for a total of seven years. He was imprisoned by the Japanese for involvement in the 1936 assassination of former Premier Makoto Saito and again by the Americans as a Class-A war-crimes suspect (he was later released without trial). He became wealthy during World War II by supplying the Japanese navy and, by his account, "bringing home truckloads of diamonds and platinum" from territories occupied by Japan. After...
...Ordering his driver to stop at a spot in the palace park where about 1,500 well-wishers had been admitted, the President jumped out of his Cadillac limousine. The crowd surged against a restraining rope to touch him, sometimes three or four shaking his hand simultaneously. Mrs. Yoshie Saito, 40, a Tokyo housewife, was so excited that she exclaimed: "Ford-san's hand was big, warm and soft. I'm going home to wrap up my right hand with a bandage to keep the honor bestowed on me as long as possible...
Died. Sessue Hayakawa, 84, Japanese-born movie villain of the silent screen who in 1958 received an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Colonel Saito, the fanatical, stony-faced prison-camp commander in The Bridge on the River Kwai; of pneumonia; in Tokyo...
...crudest form." Tokyo Psychology Professor Kazuo Shimada sputtered that Nakata's arrest was unfair because sex "is a personal and private matter." Mitsuo Takeya, a leading Japanese nuclear physicist, worried that government repression "could end up by distorting the basic concept of sex." Complained Printmaker Kiyoshi Saito: "Where there is no sun, no healthy arts can flourish...
...troupe. English is slightly favored over Japanese as the language of the evening, but each tongue is like a quick-change costume donned for the humor of it. Some of the speech-solo numbers could stand cutting. However, one of these speech solos, delivered with exquisite intensity by Shoichi Saito, contains the distilled beauty and pain of love as a man simply tells how he cared greatly for a girl, left her, and then wrote her a letter...