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Taken together, these five qualities have furthered a national spirit of compromise and cooperation and a willingness to endure short-term setbacks for the long-term good of the nation, company or family as a whole. Says Shiro Miyamoto, an official of the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry: "Our system is born of the traditions and history of this country, a small nation with few resources. Without our way of doing things, there would be continual conflict and nothing would ever get done...
Uemura had also been supplied by sponsors of the expedition with devices to take snow, ice and air samples for scientific study in Japan. As it turned out, he had little time for research. On the 35th day of the expedition, for example, a husky named Shiro gave birth to six pups. After acting as midwife, Uemura placed the mother and her litter in a cardboard supply box, wrapped it in caribou skins and lashed it to the sledge. He then called for eleven fresh dogs; they replaced the weariest huskies, which were sent back to base camp with Shiro...
Process In Flight. Almost daily, the planes hurdle Japan's clogged highways to cover fires, floods, shipping accidents and other news events and still return in time to meet competitive deadlines. "They are as indispensable as the walkie-talkie and the reporter's pencil," claims Shiro Hara, managing editor of Yomiuri. Many of the aircraft are equipped to process film in flight, then transmit it to newspaper offices via mobile radiophoto equipment. When a disaster breaks, speed is so important that most of the papers' airport mechanics are also trained to fill in as photographers. The dailies...
...including Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to scale Mount Everest. It took rescuers four days to locate the seven climbers. The summit men were picked up by helicopter at 13,350 ft. Blomberg and Edwards got back to the base camp by themselves; Wichman and Shiro Nishimae were located in an igloo at 10,200 ft. They were suffering from nothing more serious than stiff muscles, frostbite and a frightening feeling that they had used up a lot of their luck. What was it like up there? Blurted one of the climbers: "It was blowing like...
...Mistress. A fine Japanese film, made in 1953 by Director Shiro Toyoda, that seems almost an Oriental version of A Doll's House (TIME...