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Without sumo wrestling, there might be no Japan. According to legend, the Japanese won their homeland in a sumo match between a Shinto god named Takemikazuchi and an aborigine. Takemikazuchi "crushed his opponent like grass" and thus took the deed to the Land of the Rising...
Married. Fumiko Higashikuni, 21, eldest granddaughter of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; and Kazutoshi Omura, 28, an executive with Hitachi Metals, Ltd.; in a Shinto ceremony; in Tokyo...
...bring Babe Ruth and other baseball stars to Japan for a tour in 1934. The tour was a hit and raised the paper's circulation by 50,000, though Shoriki was stabbed by an ultranationalist who took offense when the Americans played ball on the grounds of a Shinto shrine. Last October Shoriki, now 83, staged an exhibit of Tibetan art treasures and invited the Dalai Lama to attend. When he arrived, Red China got so angry at this "sinister activity" that it canceled the accreditation of the Yomiuri correspondent in Peking...
...World War I and immediately set about seriously developing and colonizing the islands. Japanese methods were often harsh, but they were vigorous and effective. Koror (see map) became a miniature Miami Beach for winter-weary Japanese, a sophisticated city of 30,000 replete with fine restaurants, geisha houses and Shinto shrines. Trading vessels from Japan were soon exporting great quantities of fish, pineapple, sugar and pearls from the islands. The Japanese paved roads, built hospitals and ports and laid down a rudimentary infrastructure for economic growth...
Hiroshi Oe, 53, a distinguished, Shinto-influenced modernist, is represented by a new balconied suburban high school, plus a $745,000, six-story cultural hall ("Almost like a dream girl," says Kane ko. "I've fallen head over heels...