Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yokoi surrendered in the jungles of Guam in 1972, all Japan was excited by the emergence of "the last soldier" of World War II. Yokoi immediately became a national hero. When the second "last soldier" of World War II, Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, was found in the Philippines last March, Tokyo sent a chartered jet to bring him home. When a third last soldier was captured on the remote Indonesian island of Morotai last month, the Japanese began to show a little embarrassment. How many more aging sons of Nippon can still be fighting for the Emperor in remote corners...
Like his predecessors, Private Teruo Nakamura was motivated to hold out both by fear of capture and fidelity to orders. After a final banzai charge against invading U.S. troops failed in January 1945, radio contact between Tokyo and Morotai was lost. Nakamura, who was separated from other members of his commando unit, managed to avoid capture and built a grass hut deep in the jungle. He survived by raising potatoes and picking bananas off the trees. "My commanding officer told me to fight it out," he explained. Last month he was spotted by a Morotai native, who alerted Indonesian authorities...
...Year Gerald Ford, the first President to comeunelected to the Oval Office. Though he began his stewardship buoyed by immense popular good will, Ford disillusioned many Americans with his sudden unconditional pardon of Nixon. For all his fall campaigning at home and his ventures abroad to Tokyo, Seoul and Vladivostok, Ford did not seem quick to assert the firm and imaginative leadership that the U.S. so badly needed. Still, at year's end, Ford had been in office only 144 days, and that was plainly too short a period to tell how effective his presidency might ultimately...
Takeo Miki may be the least likely of Japan's twelve postwar Premiers. Unlike nearly all his predecessors, he did not attend a prestige, elitist school, but graduated from Tokyo's mediocre Meiji University (class of '37). Instead of working his way up through a government bureaucracy before entering Cabinet-level politics as most other Premiers did, Miki has spent his entire career as a legislator. Since 1937, he has won 14 consecutive elections to the Diet, in which he has represented his native Shikoku where he grew up as the only child of a moderately wealthy...
Friendship Meeting" in Tokyo, despite threats on his life from ultranationalists. He publicly argued that Japan should not go to war with the U.S., an attitude probably formed in part by the four years he spent studying at American universities. Although wartime Premier Hideki Tojo declared Miki an "undesirable candidate" in the 1942 elections, the voters of Shikoku sent him back to the Diet...