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...Mitsuo Utsumi wanted to combine leisure and work in his retirement years, and farm living was the formula he found. After 30 years at Roche, the salaryman and his wife Setsuko moved back to Kasegawa City in central Japan three years ago to build their own farm, where they grow figs. "This was my dream," says 58-year-old Utsumi, happily sweltering inside one of his two greenhouses. "I wanted to establish a way to live when I retired, not just survive off a pension." As retirements go, it's not that retiring?Utsumi often puts in full days that...
...Some run away because of lousy conditions at home. "Parents today are overwhelmed by their own problems?money, jobs, each other," says Setsuko Tsuboi, an attorney who takes child-welfare cases pro bono. "They take their frustrations out on their children through neglect or being overly strict, even abusive. Children then feel they have no place in the home, that indeed their lives are worthless." According to a study by the Health and Welfare Ministry, 72% of girls and 46% of boys who suffered some form of abuse in the home responded by running away. There's not much...
...other two characters, Setsuko Banks (Dori Takata) and Teruko Mackenzie (Laurie Tanaka), are less colorful but the players nevertheless made their lines count. Punchlines are well delivered and convey the ingenuousness of their characters for the greatest impact...
Born. To Feiho Ikeda, 26, crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fortunate Dragon, which was dusted with radioactive fallout (1954) after a U.S. H-bomb test in the Marshall Islands, and his wife Setsuko Ikeda, 23: a son, described as healthy and normal, the first child born to any of the 22 survivors (one crewman died). Weight...
...Southern California's Phi Beta Kappa student Setsuko Matsunaga, now at Washington University in St. Louis. Miss Matsunaga studies sociology, has addressed civic and church groups in the St. Louis area...