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...lookout for her pet (it was found), lent the penniless youth 560 yen ($2.33) from a special emergency fund in exchange for a signed IOU (four out of five such loans are repaid) and radioed for a patrol car to break up the marital battle. Said Sergeant Shigeo Takahashi, grinning with satisfaction: "You stand here for a quarter of an hour, and you can do as deep a study of life as is possible...
...government White Paper last year reported that although most women are still content with their responsibilities as keepers of the home, only 13% feel they are given equal status at work, and only 10% believe they are treated equally in terms of social perceptions and customs. Shigeo Saito, author of a national sex survey, found that "Japanese housewives are frustrated in many ways. Women at the moment are giving signs of warning, and the men aren't really paying attention to them...
...their 802nd try, researchers at Ono created Ono 802. In the first trial on pregnant volunteers, reports Dr. Shigeo Takagi of Tokyo's Nihon University School of Medicine, the drug within a week completely aborted 86% of his patients who had missed their period for twelve to 37 days. Bleeding usually began within six to eight hours after the drug was administered (in the form of three to five waxy, bullet-shaped white suppositories inserted one at a time into the vagina at three-hour intervals). The World Health Organization has given its blessings to more widespread clinical trials...
...Japanese understand and enjoy Verdi, Puccini and Bizet? By and large, yes. Reflects Tokyo Music Critic Shigeo Kimura: "The mode of life here is one .of great variety. It is very international. The people may go to bed in a Japanese fashion, but the question when they get up is: Do they consider themselves Asiatics?" Aurally at least, the answer seems to be no. In the elevators of Tokyo's hotels, the canned music is not the koto, but usually Chopin or Bach. Traditional Japanese music survives in the Kabuki and No theaters but in few other places...
...ruling, by Sapporo District Court Judge Shigeo Fukushima, came in response to a suit brought by a group of farmers who challenged the government's release of some state forest preserve for the construction of a Nike missile base. The government has vowed to appeal; civil procedures being slow in Japan, it could take anywhere from two to six years before the Supreme Court decides the case...