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Tokyo...Seven-year-old Seiichi Yasuda of the heavily industrialized city of Yokkaichi, Japan, recently collapsed and suffocated despite doctors' attempts to revive him. The cause of death, according to city authorities: air pollution. Young Seiichi, an asthma sufferer since the age of 3, became Yokkaichi's 41st officially designated pollution fatality...
...mounting casualty figures in Yokkaichi suggest the growing dangers of breathing Japanese air. The day that Seiichi died, Japan's second largest city, Osaka, issued its first smog alert. And within three days, in the smog-bound city of Kawasaki, the air claimed a new victim, Mrs. Natsuko Hojo, a 28-year-old mother of two children, whose death badly shocked the other victimized residents of the city...
Stamped Out. In Kodara Village, Japan, Local Postmaster Seiichi Higashiza-wa, 33, short of government funds and faced with a visit by inspectors, burned down the post office...
Tomorrow, Famine. Whatever Japan's goal, she put a lot of muscle behind her drive: perhaps two full divisions (30,000 men), one of them headed by roly-poly, arrogant Lieut. General Seiichi Kita, the mastermind of Japanese political puppetry in North China. Against this force the Chinese could muster a large but poorly armed, undertrained army under a good general, burly Veteran...
...General Pai advancing against positions held by troops of Generalissimo Chiang north of Canton. Pai's untrained soldiers really thought they were advancing "against the Japanese." When they found themselves facing fellow Chinese troops they stopped, camped, waited. Meanwhile at Nanking the Japanese Military Attaché, Major General Seiichi Kita, spilled a great many beans by nervously observing that if it should be proved that Japan had sold munitions to General Pai there would be nothing irregular in that. Cried this dimwit Attache: "Japan of course sells munitions to whoever will pay for them...