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...Japanese jazz buff named Shoichi Kusano, 29, sold Down Beat editors in Chicago on a Japanese edition of the jazz magazine, sold out 2,000 copies of the first issue at 50? each, expects soon to be selling 10,000 copies per issue, almost half the magazine's U.S. sales. The September issue features a story called "Tragedy of Newport Festa," telling of the riots that broke up the Newport Jazz Festival this summer. In this case, the Japanese got there first: at Tokyo's first jazz festival last summer, an overflow crowd almost tore down the joint...
...reports Bureau Chief Dwight Martin, is without doubt the most reckless, dangerous and completely unpredictable of any major city in the world. The special peril, he adds, are the taxis - darting, speeding little engines of destruction. The man who braves these haz ards for TIME is 25-year-old Shoichi Imai, who knows the fastest possible routes between the TIME office, the international airport and the military airfields surrounding the city...
Last week the Japanese Government announced that it would set up a Legation in Addis Ababa in January. To point the snub, first Chargé d'Affaires will be the present Japanese Counselor at Rome, Shoichi Nakayama...
...Last week two of the oldest British firms in China (Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp.) began to close their Manchurian branches. Fearing a duplication in North China, the British Minister to China, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson called on the Japanese Charge d'Affaires in Peiping, Shoichi Xakayama, and offered himself as middleman in direct negotiations between Japan and China. He made his old suggestion of a ten-mile neutral zone just south of the Wall to be closed to troops of both sides. Nakayama was cold to the /.one idea which would tie up Japan...