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...DIED. SCHOICHI YOKOI, 82, die-hard Japanese soldier who emerged from his jungle hideout on Guam 27 years after World War II ended; of heart failure; in Nagoya. When leaflets drifted down from U.S. planes announcing the war's end, Yokoi suspected foul play on the part of the Allies. Counting the years by the cycles of the moon and crafting clothing from tree-bark fibers, Yokoi honored his pledge never to surrender. Two hunters who stumbled upon him in 1972 passed on the news of Japan's defeat...
...Schoichi Sugiyama, translator and researcher for the crew, said yesterday that the show will try to document some of the differences between Japanese and American universities...
...sense of accomplishment from it," says Kentaro Sasaki, a 25-year-old personnel officer, who spent six months on the line. But whatever their feelings, the plant's workers apply themselves diligently. "They try to increase their output to show that they can do the job well," Foreman Schoichi Tsuchida told TIME Correspondent Edwin Reingold...
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