Word: soh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Potential Bombs. The portents touched off a selling campaign by Tokyo department stores of survival kits containing medicines, canned foods and candles. The monthly magazine Soh devoted a whole issue to the catchy question "Could you survive a major earthquake?" No doubt millions of Japanese could-but their capital city probably would...
...devoted to apple-pie softness and bamboo resilience. In war movies of the '40s, the Japanese were a thin yellow line. Tora! Tora! Tora!* is a refreshing reversal. The Americans tend to blend into an indistinguishable potbellied mob. It is the Orientals who are individuals. Admiral Yamamoto (Soh Yamamura) is Eskimo-like in appearance, stoical in practice, goaded by an affliction no leader can afford: doubt. Lieut. Commander Fuchida (Takahiro Tamura) is an Oriental Smilin' Jack, all jaw and strut. Ambassador Nomura (Shogo Shimada), present in Washington when the bombs fell, is the same shrunken cipher who appeared...