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...Emperor's five daughters, Princess Teru died in 1961 at the age of 35, and Princess Hisa died within six months of her birth in 1927. Kazuko Takatsukasa, 54, became a Shinto priestess after her husband died; Atsuko Ikeda, 52, is a businessman's wife; and Takako Shimazu, 44, is married to a banker...
...second weekend of modern dance at Agassiz Theater will feature performances and choreography by Takako Asakawa and David Hatch Walker, soloists with the legendary Martha Graham Company. Tickets $2.50 at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office, the Loeb box office, and at the door...
...Takako became a lathe operator at a cadmium smelter near her home in Annaka, a city on the main island of Honshu. When she began suffering mysterious pains in 1961, no one even thought to blame cadmium. As protection against the toxic metal, which is widely used for electroplating, she wore special rubber clothing. Doctors diagnosed her ailment as "intestinal ulcers." But even eight years after she switched to clerical work, the pain continued. Two summers ago, it got so bad that Takako, 28, leaped from a speeding train and into a river...
...then, other Japanese were complaining of a strange disease called, for lack of a medical term, itai-itai (ouch-ouch). Seeking clues, health officials finally exhumed Takako's body last month and performed an autopsy. The results shocked the nation. By current Japanese standards, a reading of one part per million of cadmium is harmful to humans. Takako's liver contained 4,540 p.p.m., her kidneys 22,400 p.p.m. Scientists speculated that she breathed cadmium particles and fumes generated by the plant's smelting process, and pointed out that a major symptom of such poisoning, decalcification...
...ordered health checks on all workers in the more than 1,000 Japanese plants that use cadmium-a crucial step, since only a handful of those plants take adequate safety precautions. Last week health officials reported that cadmium has tainted much of the country's rice. Farmers around Takako's city of Annaka, for example, have been urged to stop raising wheat and Chinese cabbages; samples have been found to contain as much as 17.8 p.p.m. of cadmium...