Word: shigeki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shigeki Sakimura was one of the submerged, and now forgotten, intellectuals of Japan. As a student he explored the social sciences, brooded over his country's oligarchic economy, dallied with Marxism. At 30, the hardworking, high-strung scholar became a full professor. Two years later, in 1941, his Government sent him to Berlin as Embassy attaché, to study German heavy industry...
...Angeles, 19-year-old Nisei Shigeki (Arthur) Kaihatsu reflected on the problem of his people. A former freshman star on the basketball team at U.C.L.A., young Arthur now works in a vegetable market. Said he: "Most of us Nisei are completely loyal. ... I guess there are some spies among us. I don't know. But the answer seems to be to take the whole bunch of us and dump us in one spot. The spies can't do any damage, and we won't be suspected...