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Word: sugimoto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany with a French admirer of Kaiser Wilhelm. A topflight Japanese stage & screen star is Miss Yoshiki Okada, billed soon to appear in a leading Tokyo theatre. For a time she was the Viscountess Takeuchi, recently was said to have taken as her lover a Japanese Communist writer, Ryokichi Sugimoto. Last week this pair were reported out sleighing on the snow-covered island of Sakhalin, half Japanese, half Soviet. Suddenly the Japanese sleigh driver found himself being nudged in the ribs by Comrade Sugimoto with a pistol. The driver halted, watched, terrified and helpless, while the actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Beauteous Traitress | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...Japan, morally dead. The Japanese Government ordered its consul at Alexandrovsk, Russian Sakhalin, to "demand full information." But over their beer in Tokyo hard-to-convince U. S. journalists, suspicious of a publicity hoax, agreed that so far as they knew the lover of Miss Okada had been not Sugimoto but a mildly radical Japanese theatrical producer, Yoshimasa Yoshida. Sure enough, part of their suspicion was confirmed. Japanese dispatches from Sakhalin declared that the lover in the case was indeed Yoshida but still insisted that he and Miss Okada had eloped to the Reds. Final confirmation came when Soviet officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Beauteous Traitress | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...DAUGHTER OF THE NOHFU-Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto-Doubleday, Doran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Rollo, Sliced | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...earlier book of Author Sugimoto's, A Daughter of the Samurai, has been a best seller (80,000 copies), gave Author Christopher Morley "a secret notion that it will go on for years & years, making friends for itself and for the brave woman who wrote it, and also-this would please her most-friends for Japan." A Daughter of the Nohfu gave some readers last week the secret notion that no matter how Japanesily you slice it, Little Rollo is still baloney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Rollo, Sliced | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

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