Word: takeshi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canon Camera's Takeshi Mitarai, 60, who, by stressing quality and workmanship, emerged as one of the world's leading camera manufacturers and exporters...
...police headquarters, the assassin calmly identified himself as Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, told detectives his only regret was failing to kill Communist Sanzo Nosaka and Japan Teachers' Union Chairman Takeshi Kobayashi as well as Asanuma. He had planned to bag all three. The sword, he explained, was a wakizashi, the kind worn by samurai until 1876, when the government forbade people to carry them. He had found it only the week before in the bottom of his father's closet...
...People Listened. Under the constitution pressed through by Occupation Commander Douglas MacArthur at the end of World War II, the Japanese were guaranteed freedom of the press. But to the Japanese press, freedom soon became a mandate to inveigh against all authority. Says Takeshi Susuki, managing editor of Chubu Nippon: "The function of the press in Japan has always been, and remains, to fight against feudalism...