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...confirmed the prevailing theory that the abductees were used to teach Korean spies how to impersonate Japanese citizens. One victim, Yaeko Taguchi, a Tokyo bar hostess who had just dropped off her children at day care when she disappeared at age 22, is thought to have trained an agent named Kim Hyon Hui. This agent posed as a Japanese citizen in 1987 to board a South Korean passenger jet and plant a bomb in its cabin. Taguchi, the North Koreans say, is now dead...
...hostages, the task before them was perhaps best expressed by Etsuko Taguchi, 59, who attended the ill-fated reception with her husband Yoshimoto, 57. Etsuko was released on Wednesday night, but Yoshimoto remained. On Thursday she attempted to hand a packet of stomach tablets to the Red Cross workers who were acting as go-betweens, with a note addressed to her husband in Roman alphabet. Added to it was the single Japanese word, ganbatte. It means "hang in there...
From Liberty to Freedom. "We are not concerned about being the world's biggest single shipbuilder. It doesn't mean a thing if you lose money," says IHI's Taguchi. Company profits are expected to be $12 million in fiscal 1967, up from $8,000,000 in 1966. And to keep the money rolling in, IHI this month will start large-scale production of an improved version of the World War II Liberty ships. Called Freedom ships, the 13,870-ton cargo vessels can be mass-produced at $2.8 million apiece, eventually at the rate...
...latest leviathan, says IHI's president, Renzo Taguchi, 61, who happens to be a golf buff, "would take a good drive and four iron from bow to stern." The ship is 1,150 ft. long with an overall height of 105 ft., and will be powered by an 18,700-h.p. engine, with a second one standing by for emergencies...
...Bishop Taguchi of Osaka and Msgr. Furuya accepted. Led by Takahashi and Kataoka, resplendent in dusty morning coats, 800 villagers crammed the town hall to attend Mass, while hundreds more, in their best go-to-meeting clothes, waited patiently outside. When it was over, a village spokesman pledged Saga's entire population to "throw away the world of superstition and embrace the true faith...