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Murakami moves effortlessly between surreal comedy and tragedy. In one of his most striking and sparsely rendered passages, aging veteran Tokutaro Mamiya comes to visits Okada and describes in graphic detail how he watched a friend get skinned alive by a Mongolian soldier. This encounter is followed by one of the funniest episodes of the book, in which Okada and his Lolita-esque neighbor travel to Tokyo to take inventory of its bald inhabitants...
...enough, were in many cases people of substance and standing in their native lands. The Indian delegation was led by bulky, 71-year-old Mrs. Rameshwari Nehru, a respected social worker and cousin-in-law to India's Prime Minister. The 45-man Japanese contingent was headed by Tokutaro Kitamura, a prominent banker and Liberal-Democratic member of Japan's Diet. Among the delegates from the Sudan was Foreign Minister Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub...
...morning last week, cutaway-clad Tokutaro Kimura, Tokyo's opposite number to U.S. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, strode onto the flat, tiled roof of Japan's yellow brick Pentagon, past Japanese army, navy and air force officers snapped to attention, and said: "Peace cannot be attained with folded arms . . . It is the duty of our country to complete the arrangements through which it could defend itself with its own hands." With that, Japan officially began rearming...
...deference to lingering fears of reviving militarism, Japan's top defense leadership is civilian. Frail, old (68 years) Tokutaro Kimura, the overall defense boss, is a lawyer. On all major decisions, he must consult an eight-man Defense Council of civilians...
...Applauded a speech delivered by Tokutaro Kitamura, leader of a visiting delegation from the Japanese Diet. Said Kitamura: "I should like to express our deepest regret for the tragic trouble we have caused to the people of the United States, the peoples of the European nations, the people of China, and also the people of the Australian nation...
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