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Construction of Shitennoji, one of the oldest Buddhist complexes in Japan, began in the year 593. One of its carpenters, Shigemitsu Kongo, traveled to Japan from the Korean kingdom of Paekche. Today, working from offices overlooking the temple, Kongo Gumi Co. is run by Masakazu Kongo, 55, the 40th Kongo to lead the 1,410-year-old company, believed to be the world's oldest family enterprise...
...UCLA-trained Masakazu says 90% of the carpentry techniques Shigemitsu brought to Japan are still used today. Yet as much as the Kongos value tradition, their firm has survived by being flexible. "Most families automatically choose the eldest son to continue their business," says Masakazu. "Our family always chose the son with the largest sense of responsibility...
Already the empire was ashes. "Nights of strong wind were chosen, and bombs were dropped to windward in great quantity," wrote Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu in his memoirs. "The area encompassed by a wall of flame then became the target for the next wave, which systematically bombed the whole. The area became a sea of flame." Kokura, Niigata, Nagasaki and Hiroshima seemed to have been spared; but they were on a special list. "Day by day, Japan turned into a furnace from which the voice of a people searching for food rose in anguish," wrote Shigemitsu. "And yet the clarion...
...fate at a reception given for Spain's Princess Elena in Tokyo. It was a typical ceremonial trade-off: young women were invited to amuse the pretty Spanish royal and also to be reviewed by the bachelor crown prince. Naruhito liked Masako-san at once. Shigemitsu Dando, a former Supreme Court justice and longtime adviser to the imperial household, confided to his diary that "she was very graceful but also cheery and ! outgoing." Four meetings were arranged, and the imperial watchdogs began a routine background check over three generations...
...crew of 1,600 before an audience of 12,000 dignitaries and guests. The mere mention of the ship summons echoes from the remembered past. On her bleached teak decks, Supreme Allied Commander General Douglas MacArthur had accepted the unconditional surrender of the Japanese from Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu...