Word: saito
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...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...
...Saito's Sato is a masterpiece deserving better than the slick superficiality of the cover story. One example: to label the Japanese Self-Defense Force as "something of a joke in an Asia that teems with massive armies" is pure claptrap. Japan's military potential, compared with that of other Asian countries, as well as that of all but a very few of the countries of the world, makes its small but excellent land, sea and air forces about as funny as a pocket battleship...