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...school is intended to help companies do just that. Its president is cagey Tadashi Kurihara, 70, who learned the ins and outs of espionage as a career diplomat and onetime Ambassador to Turkey. On his nine-man staff are seasoned operatives from Japan's wartime intelligence services, including Yuzuru Fukamachi, 65, a onetime navy code specialist, and Tatsuo Furuya, 55, Japan's intelligence chief in wartime Shanghai. President Kurihara and his men claim to be down to earth about their job. Says Kurihara: "We wear trench coats for warmth, not atmosphere...
Among the best of Japan's new print-makers is Tadashi Nakayama, 33, who switched from oils to woodprints only two years ago. Characteristically, he minimizes the realism of his dream-tossed horses (see color): "My real interest is not so much in horses as in the wind. I am fascinated by the way the wind can change the form of things-a flower, the hair of a girl, the mane of a horse...
...DIVINE WIND (240 pp.)-Rikihei Inoguchi, Tadashi Nakajima and Roger Pineau-U.S. Naval Institute...
Recession. In Matsuyama, Japan, "Rice Merchant" Tadashi Ebino was finally tracked down by police after he had 1) collected 2,000 yen ($5) in advance from a customer, 2) borrowed the customer's bicycle to deliver the rice, 3) borrowed the customer's watch to make certain he got to the rice pickup point on time, 4) failed to return...
Unlike Japan's prewar popular songs, which were languidly minor key and stickily sentimental, Song of the Apple was as sprightly as a hit from a U.S. college musical. It was written for Japan's first postwar movie, Soyokaze (Gentle Breeze), by Hachiro Sato and Tadashi Manjome, the Rodgers & Hammerstein of Japan's Tin Pan Alley. Lyricist Sato, a paunchy little Jap with a luxuriant ebony mustache, is Japan's Edgar Guest, turns out 50 homey verses a month for newspapers and radio. He wrote Song of the Apple before breakfast one morning in bed, after...