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...Sunao Tsuboi thought he was one of the lucky ones. In 1945, he was 20 years old and an engineering student in Hiroshima. Two of his brothers had been killed in the war. But Tsuboi got to stay home, helping design war planes for the government. "If you studied literature," he says today, "you went to war. If you studied science and engineering, the government postponed your draft in order to have you make weapons." Tsuboi was on the way to his university on Aug. 6 when the Enola Gay dropped Little Boy over Hiroshima. He was less than...
...Renewal and redemption, after all, are at the core of what Hiroshima, 60 years on, represents. Sunao Tsuboi, at 80, knows that better than most. Four or five years after the end of the war, he fell in love with a woman whose parents refused to let her marry him because he was a victim of the A-bomb and who knew how long he would live? In despair, the lovers tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills but failed. Eventually they got married, once it became apparent to her parents that he wasn't going to die young...
...banks of the Grand River came leaders from around the world to offer their respects: President José Lopez Portillo of Mexico, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau of Canada, former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing of France, Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda of Japan, and even the emperor of Hollywood, Bob Hope. There were fireworks and fishing contests, viewings of the Gerald Ford stamp collection, and a $1,000-a-plate dinner of chicken breast complemented by Michigan wine (Tabor Hill Winery's Vidal Semi-Blanc...
...final stage of Japan's election campaign, tried to play down the controversy. Among other things, he feared that a strident debate over the islands would further poison Soviet-Japanese relations, already damaged by Tokyo's friendship treaty with China last year. Accordingly, his Foreign Minister, Sunao Sonoda, dovishly cautioned against "overreaction," sounding very much like U.S. officials on the Cuban issue...
...Open up government purchasing to international competitive bidding. Despite the new code, Japan has refused so far to allow outsiders to bid for some of its most lucrative government business. That action has incensed the U.S., as Strauss made clear in talks last week with Japanese Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda...