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Died. Naoya Shiga, 88, the grand old misanthropic master of Japanese letters, known to his countrymen as "the Divine Novelist" and "Emperor Shiga"; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Shiga was a perfectionist who spent 16 years writing his only full-length novel, a semi-autobiographical work called Anya Koro (Journey Through the Darkness). But he was a prolific short-story writer and essayist. His delicate and unadorned prose made his works classics. Shiga was frustrated by what he considered the inadequacies of his own language: he once urged Japan to adopt "a more exacting foreign tongue...
...Shiga Deaths. There were other disorders of a sufficiently deadly potential to trouble U.S. scientists. Shigellosis, a bacillary dysentery that is a virulent and highly infectious intestinal disease, is epidemic in Central America, where it has attacked more than a thousand people in Guatemala alone. Some epidemiologists fear that it may be moving northward into the U.S. Three deaths, probably from "Shiga," have occurred among Indians in Arizona; the most recent victim was an elderly woman who died of it in Florida after a visit to Nicaragua. Shiga responds to antibiotics and chemotherapy-when those treatments are available...
...worst blow to Japanese Communists came from within, when the Cominform publicly blasted Party Strategist Sanzo Nozaka, a Popular Front advocate, for not using more "revolutionary" methods. Japanese Politburo Member Yoshio Shiga accused Nozaka of "Titoism," caused a still unhealed intraparty schism...
Last June General MacArthur ordered Nozaka, Shiga and 22 other Red leaders expelled from political life. They went underground. Leaderless, the party rank & file began to drift away...
...nowhere to be seen or heard was the top purgee, Secretary General Kyuichi Tokuda. Equally elusive were the usually vocal Ritsu Ito, ousted Communist theorist and spokesman, and Yoshio Shiga, leading party advocate of violent action, whose "tough" policy had brought on the MacArthur order. From shrewd, slippery Sanzo Nozaka, pre-purge chairman of the Japanese Politburo, came only ironic speculation. Said Nozaka: "Now that I have so much time on my hands ... I may try to become a movie critic. Or else, now that summer is here, perhaps I can start an ice candy [Japanese Popsicle] shop...