Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good boy," wrote a mother to her son, "and get a haircut." It was too late. Airman Third Class Donald Wheeler, 20, stationed near Tokyo, did not "want to walk down the street looking like a shaved jackass," so he was court-martialed...
...story of Wheeler's uncivil disobedience unfolded in an air of solemnity as four Air Force officers sat in judgment at U.S. Fifth Air Force headquarters in Fuchu, 19 miles from Tokyo. As everyone knew, the ceremonial Honor Guard, to which Wheeler belonged, was the very model of modern spit and polish: 70 frozen-faced six-footers, strictly disciplined, heads closely cropped, attended by twelve pants-pressers, twelve shoeshine boys, two full-time tailors, and bevies of shy, eye-batting Japanese girls. Yet Airman Wheeler, a rebellious sort who did not like his job anyway, disregarded the orders...
Friendly Sock. Lieut. Shortt pleaded, even offered to pay for the haircut (25?). At length Wheeler consented, went off to Tokyo, returned-unshorn. He explained gravely to Shortt that he had only visited a hospital ("I am thinking of being circumcised-as a health measure"). He had also stopped off at a brothel...
...procedural irregularities in the trial." Said Colonel Charles W. Johnstone, Wheeler's commanding officer: "Wheeler told me he is going to be a fine airman and I believe him. I am convinced he has undergone a considerable change of attitude." Said Don Wheeler, as he shoved off for Tokyo to celebrate the scalping he gave the Air Force: "You spend a few days in the stockade, and your attitude would change too. But I feel that it was an unfair, ridiculous order and I would challenge it again...
Back in 1952, Shigeru Murai, a natty, smooth-talking member of a well-to-do Tokyo merchant family, joined the staff of the Nippon Textile Research Institute, a respected outfit set up by the textile industry to study market research and improve designs. Two years later, Shigeru Murai resigned and opened a new textile sales company just across the street from the institute in the heart of Tokyo's business district. Flashing the institute's name and his career there to get credit, the smiling and ever-courteous Murai bought large quantities of textile and paper supplies...