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...Mistress (Japanese). The rise of a fallen woman is quietly, shrewdly observed by Director Shiro Toyoda in one of the best films to come out of Japan...
...Mistress (Japanese). The rise of a fallen woman is quietly, shrewdly observed by Director Shiro Toyoda in one of the best films to come out of Japan...
...Marine Pfc. Adolph W. Merten took a blurry look at the barroom quintet and decided he saw four Japanese Communists all set to kill an American Army sergeant. Merten, a Korea veteran subject to "Bolshephobia" (i.e., seeing Red) when liquored up, fired five wavering revolver shots. Shiro Takawa, 19, no Communist but simply another patron in the Yokosuka bar, fell dying. When Merten went to trial before a Japanese court last week for manslaughter, his Japanese lawyer pulled out Article 39 of the Japanese criminal code, which holds that "an act by a person of unsound mind is not punishable...
...more than a half-minute. That night, figuring that he would surely break the records for 800 and 1,000 meters on his way to an easy victory in the 1,500-meter final, dockers were ready to time him at those distances. But it was a teammate, Shiro Hashizume, who was ahead at 800 and 1,000 meters, and who set the new world marks. Then Furuhashi overhauled his teammate and won the race...
...Japan last week, 127,000 hollow-cheeked boys and girls stood patiently in queues. The boys and girls were students, waiting their turn to be examined for entrance into the nation's 89 universities and colleges. In the Tokyo line-up was Shiro Suzuki, 20, an ex-soldier...