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...police, but because of the nationalistic sympathies the plot has aroused, the son is eventually released. Then, with his zealotry intact, lunuma proceeds alone to his assassination target as planned, and commits the suicide he had desired-in the book's last sentence, which is touched by Mi-shima's lucid, kinetic imagery. "The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids...
...Tsuyo Shima is a member of Hiseido, or the Second Generation of A-Bomb Victims. "Maybe you have visited the 'Peace Park', "he said to me. "The Japanese government has filled it with trees and flowers and a memorial for world peace. That is the place where the poorest A-Bomb victims used to live, but they were forced to evacuate so the government could build that park...
...Tsuyo Shima explained. "The ABCC does not serve the needs of A-Bomb victims. We may have been studied, but nothing is ever told...
Plankton & Clam Larvae. In 1959, modestly financed by fisheries companies, Dr. Fujinaga set up a pilot prawn ranch in abandoned salt-evaporation ponds at Iku-shima on Shikoku Island. He now has 30 employees, and the place is jumping with prawns. The tiny just-hatched kurumas are coddled in indoor tanks and eat yellowish-brown Skeletonema plankton that have been grown in filtered sea water doped with chemicals. Other kinds of plankton, also specially cultured, carry them through the next stage. When they are one-quarter-inch long, they graduate to outdoor tanks and are fed clam eggs and larvae...
There are some pretty big holes to till Perhaps the most devastating loss is that of the whole 1961 outfield. Charles Ravenel, Bill Rodgers, and Dick Shima were top-notch fielders and solid hitters...