Word: shikoku
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...Instead of working his way up through a government bureaucracy before entering Cabinet-level politics as most other Premiers did, Miki has spent his entire career as a legislator. Since 1937, he has won 14 consecutive elections to the Diet, in which he has represented his native Shikoku where he grew up as the only child of a moderately wealthy landowner. His public appearances are unimpressive, his speeches are dull, and he does not even engage in the martial sports or golf, which seem de rigueur for other Japanese political leaders. At the end of a hard day, he relaxes...
...life from ultranationalists. He publicly argued that Japan should not go to war with the U.S., an attitude probably formed in part by the four years he spent studying at American universities. Although wartime Premier Hideki Tojo declared Miki an "undesirable candidate" in the 1942 elections, the voters of Shikoku sent him back to the Diet...
...that these dramatic works spring from Nagare's brief career assisting a maker of samurai swords. That may be, but Nagare himself takes no interest in the sword theory. Says he: "The only way possible to prevent myself from being overwhelmed by the great glories of nature at Shikoku is to turn incessantly erotic." Each tune he sculpts a male image, he counters it by making something female, like a small piece that started as an image of growth inspired by the classical Japanese temple gate and ended as a powerful straddle of procreation called Inner Space...
After a long unsettled period, Nagare established his private world ten years ago. His first wife, also an artist, loved the excitement of Tokyo. Nagare, brought up among Kyoto's temples, never did. When they parted in 1966, he bought himself a peninsula on the island of Shikoku, 360 miles southwest of Tokyo...
...other Japanese youths. According to Sueo Murakoshi, an outcast who surmounted the system to become a professor of sociology at Osaka City University and secretary-general of the Buraku Problem Research Institute: "Some high school classes attended by buraku boys have turned into blackboard jungles." On the island of Shikoku, angry outcasts have beaten up their teachers and broken 2,000 school windowpanes in a single year...